If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

Cyprian (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.

Cyprian (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

Persevere in labors that lead to salvation. Always be busy in spiritual actions. In this way, no matter how often the enemy of our souls approaches, no matter how many times he may try to come near us, he’ll find our hearts closed and armed against him.

Cyprian (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

Their property held them in chains…chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul…If they stored up their treasure in heaven, they would not now have an enemy and a thief within their own household…They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves.

Cyprian (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.

Cyprian (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.

Cyprian (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

Cyprian (Bishop, 258 A.D.)

In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for the dead as though they perished. But now that the Savior has raised his body, death is no longer terrible; for all who believe in Christ trample on it as it were nothing and choose rather to die than deny their faith in Christ. And that devil that once maliciously exulted in death, now that its pains were loosed, remained the only one truly dead.

Athanasius (Theologian, 373 A.D.)

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

Athanasius (Theologian, 373 A.D.)

The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension – above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.

Athanasius (Theologian, 373 A.D.)