Quotes From Early Church Fathers

“You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”
—Augustine, Confessions

“Let us, therefore, forsake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back

to the Word delivered to us from the beginning. —Polycarp of Smyrna

“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons”
—Dietrich Bonheoffer (1906-45)

“Expect great things from God! Attempt great things for God!”
—William Carey (1761-1834)

“Jesus! The Name that charms our fears,
that bids our sorrows cease;
‘Tis music in the sinner’s ears,
‘Tis life and health and peace.”
—Charles Wesley

“The Son of God did not want to be seen and found in heaven. Therefore he descended from heaven into this humility and came to us in our flesh, laid himself into the womb of his mother and into the manger and went on to the cross. This was the ladder that he placed on earth so that we might ascend to God on it. This is the way you must take.”
—Martin Luther

“When God gets ready to shake America, He may not take the Ph.D. and the D.D. God may choose a country boy… God may choose the man that no one knows, a little nobody, to shake America for Jesus Christ in this day, and I pray that He would!”
—Billy Graham, 1949

“The Bible is alive, it speaks to me;

it has feet, it runs after me;

it has hands, it lays hold of me.”

—Martin Luther

“But the proconsul urged him and said, ‘Swear, and I will release thee; curse the Christ.’

And Polycarp said, ‘Eighty and six years have I served him, and he hath done me no

wrong; how then can I blaspheme my king who saved me?’”
—The Martyrdom of Polycarp

“I trust in the Lord God Almighty…that he will not take away from me the cup of his

redemption, but firmly hope to drink from it today in his kingdom.”
—John Huss (1369-1415)

“Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God, God became truly Man that the falsehood might be done away.” —Cyril of Jerusalem (315-387)

“The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.”
—Leo the Great (400-461)

“As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and faith through Him.” —Ignatius of Antioch (35-107)

“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”
—Tertullian (160-225)

“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the

refreshment of the soul.” —J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

“The Church’s foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea.

Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it. Although the elements of this world

constantly batter and crash against her, she offers the safest harbor of salvation for all in

distress.” —Ambrose (339-397)

“A heavenly light more brilliant than all others sheds its radiance everywhere, and he

who was begotten before the morning star and all the stars of heaven, Christ, mighty and

immortal, shines upon all creatures more brightly than the sun.”
—Hippolytus of Rome (170-236)

“If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us,

His ear open to our prayer—His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.
—John Newton (1725-1807)

“The future is as bright as the promises of God.”
—Adoniram Judson, (1788-1850)