Cyprian Quotes About Christ
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Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?
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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.
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And according as we say, "Our Father," because He is The Father of those who understand and believe; so also we call it "our Bread," because Christ is The Bread of those who are in union with His Body. And we ask that this Bread should be given to us daily, that we who are in Christ, and daily receive The Eucharist for the Food of Salvation, may not by the interposition of some heinous sin...be separated from Christ's Body.
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Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man, who have risen again with Christ in the heavenly regeneration, both think upon and do the things that are Christ's.
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The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.
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Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.
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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.
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