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