Cyprian quotes
Cyprian was a prominent early Christian bishop, theologian, and writer from Carthage. His works and leadership played a crucial role in shaping early Christian doctrine and handling church crises. He became recognized as a martyr and saint for his unwavering faith during times of persecution. Here are 24 of his quotes:
![Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you. (Cyprian)](https://cdn.quotesdtb.com/img/quotes_images_webp/66/cyprian-commit-praying-prayer-48366.webp)
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
If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another.
Cyprian
Hence turn your looks to the abominations, not less to be deplored, of another kind of spectacle. In the theatres also you will behold what may well cause you grief and shame. It is the tragic buskin which relates in verse the crimes of ancient days. The old horrors of parricide and incest are unfolded in action calculated to express the image of the truth, so that, as the ages pass by, any crime that was formerly committed may not be forgotten. Each generation is reminded by what it hears, that whatever has once been done may be done again. Crimes never die out by the lapse of ages; wickedness is never abolished by process of time; impiety is never buried in oblivion. Things which have now ceased to be actual deeds of vice become examples.
Cyprian
Occupation: Bishop
