As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second or third day after their birth, that the old law of circumcision must be taken into consideration, and that you did not think that one should be baptized and sanctified within the eighth day after his birth. In our council it seemed to us far otherwise. No one agreed to the course which you thought should be taken. Rather, we all judge that the mercy and grace of God ought to be denied to no man born

The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.

Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.

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

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.

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.

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.