Patristic Quote of the Day

Therefore, in discussing the opinion of Cyprian, though myself of far inferior merit to Cyprian, I say that good and bad alike can have, can give, can receive the sacrament of baptism—the good, indeed, to their health and profit; the bad to their destruction and ruin—while the sacrament itself is of equal perfectness in both of them; and that it is of no consequence to its equal perfectness in all, how much worse the man may be that has it among the bad, just as it makes no difference how much better he may be that has it among the good. -- St. Augustine, On Baptism, Book VI, Chapter 2