Cyprian: Quotes about God

Cyprian was Bishop of Carthage and Christian writer. Explore interesting quotes on god.
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“Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.”

Cyprian

Letter 1 Letter to Donatus, viii
Letters of Cyprian

“It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.”

Cyprian

Treatise on Jealousy and Envy ch. ix

“No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.”
Habere non potest Deum patrem qui ecclesiam non habet matrem.

Cyprian

De Ecclesiae Catholicae Unitate (AD 251), ch. vi.