Quotes from Cyprian

No one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.

This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.

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

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

When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.

Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

He [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength is willing to place in him.

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

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.

In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.