QUOTATION: Communion

Make no mistake, my brothers, if anyone joins a schismatic he will not inherit God’s Kingdom. If anyone walks in the way of heresy, he is out of sympathy with the Passion. Be careful, then, to observe a single Eucharist. For there is one flesh of our Lord, Jesus Christ, and one cup of his blood that makes us one, and one altar, just as there is one bishop along with the presbytery and the deacons, my fellow slaves. In that way whatever you do is in line with God’s will.

--St. Ignatius of Antioch

QUOTATION: Threefold Hierarchy

Your bishop presides in the place of God, and your presbyters in the place of the assembly of the Apostles, along with your deacons, who are most dear to me.

--St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Magnesians, 6.

QUOTATION: Worldliness

Do not have Jesus Christ on your lips, and the world in your hearts.

--St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Romans, 7

QUOTATION: Christianity

Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.

--St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to Romans, 3:3

QUOTATION: Obedience

It's not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

--St. Ignatius of Antioch

QUOTATION: Standing up for God

Stand your ground like an anvil under the hammer. The mark of a true champion is to stand up to punishment and still come out victorious. It is our duty, particularly when the cause is God's, to accept trials of all kinds, if we ourselves are to be accepted by him.


--St Ignatius of Antioch