Top Justin Martyr Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Justin Martyr Biography

Justin Martyr (Latin: Iustinus Martyr) was an early Christian apologist, and is regarded as the foremost interpreter of the theory of the Logos in the 2nd century. He was martyred, alongside some of his students, and is considered a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Oriental Orthodox Churches.

Read about Justin Martyr in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Justin Martyr Quotes

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.

Atheism, Blind, Born, Done, Lame, Paralytic

But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, [as] the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare.

Christian, Christians, Declare, Enlarged, Ezekiel, Years

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.

Hands, Men, Mind, Religious, Strayed

But if so great a power is shown to have followed and to be still following the dispensation of His suffering, how great shall that be which shall follow His glorious advent! For He shall come on the clouds as the Son of man, so Daniel foretold, and His angels shall come with Him.

Angel, Angels, Clouds, Follow, Men, Son

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.

Christian, Let, Profess, Taught, Teaching, Though

Sound doctrine does not enter into a hard and disobedient heart.

Doe, Enter, Hard, Heart, Sound, Sound Doctrine

For I choose to follow not men or men's doctrines, but God and the doctrines [delivered] by Him. For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth], and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians

Admit, Christian, Delivered, Fallen, Men, Taken

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

Belief, Minded, Rightly, Turns

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.

Acquainted, Baptism, Believe, God, Happy Life, Initiated

We pray for our enemies; we seek to persuade those who hate us without cause to live conformably to the goodly precepts of Christ, that they may become partakers with us of the joyful hope of blessings from God, the Lord of all.

Blessing, Blessings, Enemy, Hate, Precepts, Seek

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

Accept, Accepting, Born, Common, Virgin

God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this call God has roused us all, and now we have left the state. We have renounced all the things the world offers. . . . The gods of the nations are demons.

Commanded, Country, Offers, Renounced, Violence, World

Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and on account of their different tribe, now since the coming of Christ, live familiarly with them, and pray for our enemies, and endeavor to persuade those who hate us unjustly, to the end that they may become partakers of the same joyful hope of a reward from God the ruler of all.

Become, Bring, Different, Enemy, Faith, Hate

We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war. We have exchanged our swords for plowshares, our spears for farm tools. . . now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us through the Crucified One. . . . The more we are persecuted and martyred, the more do others in ever increasing numbers become believers.

God, Kindness, Numbers, War, Weapons, Whole

Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these. . . . . We have been taught that the food that has been Eucharistized by the word of prayer, that food which by assimilation nourishes our flesh and blood, is the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jesus.

Blood, Bread, Jesus, Prayer, Receive

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.

Enemies, Enemy, Hate, Murdered, Winning

. . . it is better to believe even what is impossible to our own nature and to men, than to be unbelieving like the rest of the world, we have learned; for we know that our Master Jesus Christ said, that 'what is impossible with men is possible with God' (Mt. 19:26)?

Believe, Christian, Jesus, Like, Possible, World