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