Quote/s of the Day – 16 September – The Memorial of Sts Cornelius & Cyprian
“The world is going mad
in mutual extermination and murder,
considered as a crime, when committed individually,
becomes a virtue, when it is committed by large numbers.
It is the multiplication of the frenzy,
that assures impunity to the assassins.”
“You cannot have God for your Father
if you do not have the Church for your mother.”
“There is one God and one Christ and one Church
and one Chair founded on Peter,
by the word of the Lord.
It is not possible to set up another altar
or for there to be another priesthood
besides that one altar and that one priesthood.
Whoever has gathered elsewhere, is scattering!”
“Their property held them in chains…
chains which shackled their courage
and choked their faith
and hampered their judgement
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 it’s slaves!”
“We have solemnly
renounced the world
and therefore,
whilst we continue in it,
we should behave
like strangers and pilgrims.”
“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.”
“The wretched bodies
of the condemned
shall simmer
and blaze
in those living fires.”
St Cyprian of Carthage (c 200- c 258)
Bishop and Martyr, Father of the Church
More from St Cyprian here:
https://anastpaul.com/2019/09/16/quote-s-of-the-day-16-september-the-wisdom-of-st-cyprian-of-carthage/
And St Cyprian’s letter to St Cornelius here:
https://anastpaul.com/2019/09/16/thought-for-the-day-16-september-a-faith-that-is-ready-and-unshaken-st-cyprian-of-carthage-to-st-pope-cornelius/
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