“Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.” ThinkingChristMaintainingFlocks Book:The Sacred Writings of Saint Cyprian (Annotated Edition) Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Cyprian (Annotated Edition)
“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.” IfsThinkingSoulHeavenEnemyMastersJudgmentPropertySlaveTreasureChainsOwnersThievesHouseholdConsumerismOverconsumptionTreasures In Heaven Author:Cyprian
“As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second or third day after their birth, that the old law of circumcision must be taken into consideration, and that you did not think that one should be baptized and sanctified within the eighth day after his birth. In our council it seemed to us far otherwise. No one agreed to the course which you thought should be taken. Rather, we all judge that the mercy and grace of God ought to be denied to no man born” ThinkingMenShouldSaidLawCoursesBornCasesTakenGraceJudgingOughtBirthMercyThirdsConsiderationDeniedInfantCouncilGrace Of GodBaptismBaptizedCircumcision Author:Cyprian
“Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the life and grace of the waters of salvation. It is not cleansing which men find there, but soiling; their sins are not washed away, but only added to. That being "born again" does not bring forth sons to God but to the Devil. Born of a lie, they cannot inherit the things which Truth has promised; begotten by the faithless, they are deprived of the grace of faith.” ThinkingMenDoeLyingWaterBornSinGraceSonPromiseDevilSalvationAbandonedSacramentsFountainDeprivedBaptismBorn AgainCleansingFaithless Author:Cyprian
“Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man, who have risen again with Christ in the heavenly regeneration, both think upon and do the things that are Christ's.” ThinkingMenChristSinDiedHeavenlyOld ManBuriedRisenBaptismRegeneration Author:Cyprian
