Patristic Quote of the Day

Though they do not stand by the gospel and discipline and law of Christ, they call themselves Christians. Though they are walking in darkness, they think they are in the light, through the deceitful flattery of the adversary who, as the apostle said, transforms himself into an angel of light and adorns his ministers as ministers of righteousness. They call night day, death salvation, despair hope, perfidy faith, antiChrist Christ, cunningly to frustrate truth by their lying show of truth. That is what happens, brothers, when we do not return to the fount of truth, when we are not looking to the head and keeping the doctrine taught from heaven.—St. Cyprian of Carthage, On the Unity of the Catholic Church