Quotes from St. Cyprian
No one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.
- St. Cyprian
This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.
- St. Cyprian
Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.
- St. Cyprian
If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!
- St. Cyprian
When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.
- St. Cyprian
Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.
- St. Cyprian
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.
- St. Cyprian
He cannot have God for his father who has not the Church for his Mother.
- St. Cyprian
Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.
- St. Cyprian
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.
- St. Cyprian