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Cyprian (Latin: Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus) (c. 200 – 14 September 258) was bishop of Carthage and an important Early Christian writer, many of whose Latin works are extant. He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa, perhaps at Carthage, where he received a classical education.
Also known as: Cyprian of Carthage, Saint Cyprian of Carthage, Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus
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No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.
Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.
It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.
For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.
Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.
There is no salvation outside the Church.
Since we have Christ as our Advocate with the Father for our sins, when we pray on account of our faults, we use the very words of our Advocate.
The frame wearied with labours lies prostrate on the ground, but it is no penalty to lie down with Christ. Your limbs unbathed, are foul and disfigured with filth and dirt; but within they are spiritually cleansed, although without the flesh is defiled.
Consider the roads blocked up by robbers, the seas beset with pirates, wars scattered all over the earth with the bloody horror of camps. The whole world is wet with mutual blood; and murder, which in the case of an individual is admitted to be a crime, is called a virtue when it is committed wholesale.
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