Justin Martyr Quotes

We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people and pray for our enemies.

Let it be understood that those who are not found living as He taught are not Christian- even though they profess with the lips the teaching of Christ.

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself.

We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us.

No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.

The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.

We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible.

And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.

If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.

In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Esculapius.

We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and figures of dead men.