Saint Cyprian of Carthage Quote

After this we must subjoin, that being redeemed and quickened by the blood of Christ, we ought to prefer nothing to Christ, because He preferred nothing to us, and on our account preferred evil things to good, poverty to riches, servitude to rule, death to immortality; that we, on the contrary, in our sufferings are preferring the riches and delights of paradise to the poverty of the world, eternal dominion and kingdom to the slavery of time, immortality to death, God and Christ to the devil and Antichrist.

– Saint Cyprian of Carthage from his Exhortation to Martyrdom

Saint Cyprian of Carthage's patronage: Algeria; North Africa