Donna Perpetua > Donna's Quotes

“Stand fast in the faith, and love one another, all of you, and be not offended at my sufferings.

(Last words of Saint Perpetua, as testified to by the eyewitness to her martyrdom, as preserved by Tertullian in The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity.)”
― St. Perpetua

“Neither can I call myself anything else than what I am, a Christian.

(Saint Perpetua, as preserved by Tertullian in The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity.)”
― St. Perpetua

“I can wish no better thing for you, sirs, than this, that, recognizing in this way that intelligence is given to every man, you may be of the same opinion as ourselves, and believe that Jesus is the Christ of God.”
― Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho

“. . . not only our works, but also our thoughts, are open before God.”
― Justin Martyr, First Apology of Justin Martyr

“For it is the property of those who expect to obtain mercy by prayer and sacrifices, to cease from and repent of their sins.”
― Justin Martyr, Hortatory Address to the Greeks

“But since the adversary does not cease to resist many, and uses many and diverse arts to ensnare them, that he may seduce the faithful from their faith, and that he may prevent the faithless from believing, it seems to me necessary that we also, being armed with the invulnerable doctrines of the faith, do battle against him in behalf of the weak.”
― Justin Martyr, Fragments of the Lost Work of Justin on the Resurrection

“And those of us who are not directly caught up in any persecution for our Christian faith must pray for those who suffer such onslaughts. But even more importantly, we must pray for those who persecute us or our fellow Christians. It is what Jesus Christ calls us to do. And, as Saint Perpetua reported hearing during her last vision, "Do not be afraid, I am here with you, and I am laboring with you.”
― Donna Perpetua, Ancient Examples: St. Justin Martyr and St. Perpetua

“Throughout this project I have been filled with grace in many ways. Indeed, I can feel God’s Providential hand at work in my life, often quite powerfully. And I have been the beneficiary of what I can only describe as miracles. Some pertain to this work. I would like to share a few of them with you because from the start I felt I was drawn to engage in this project through the call of the Holy Spirit and these events only confirm that this project was blessed from the start. I share with you not to boast, but so you may see that God often actually works powerfully in one’s life, even in seemingly little things, for it is always to His greater glory. This is why we should share such stories with each other. For if we choose to retain secretly what He has given us, it does not work for His greater glory, but for our own destruction.”
― Donna Perpetua, Ancient Examples: St. Justin Martyr and St. Perpetua