No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.

And this food is called among us the Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins and to regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined.

When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven, we propound nothing new or different from what you believe regarding those whom you call the sons of Jupiter.

Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these.....We have been taught that the food that has been Eucharistized by the word of prayer, that food which by assimilation nourishes our flesh and blood, is the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jesus.

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.

The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.