When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.
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?
CyprianBe constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.
CyprianBy the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above, serene and pure, had been infused into my reconciled heart, — after that, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth had restored me to a new man.
CyprianAs 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
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