Cyprian
3rd century · AD 258 · Early Fathers (before Nicaea) · 889 passages
Bishop and martyr who wrote on the unity of the church, prayer, and how Christians should endure persecution and plague.
In his own words on Lamentations
- Lamentations 3:31-33
That all sins may be forgiven him who has turned to God with his whole heart... "The Lord will not reject forever; and when he has made low, he will have pity according to the multitude of his mercy. Because he will not bring low from his whole heart, neither will he reject the children of humankind."
Pseudo-Cyprian Exhortation to Repentance
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.