Perpetua 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

“... And Harold came into Perpetua's apartment.
He said, 'I just want to know one thing. Are you happy?' 'Sure,' Perpetua said. (Donald Barthelme, "Perpetua")”
― Donald Barthelme, Sadness

“I’d decided last night, and strengthened my resolve this morning, to have eyes for no man but Jesus. If intimacy was really what He desired most, then I desired it too. I felt strangely free from life as I had known it…”
― Amy Rachel Peterson, Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion

“I remember three years ago looking into the entrance pool of Julia’s stately domus and finding I was beautiful.”
― Amy Rachel Peterson, Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion

“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

“Father,' said I, 'do you see this vase here, for example, or water pot or whatever?'
'Yes, I do', said he.
And I told him: 'Could it be called by any other name than what it is?'
And he said: 'No.'
'Well, so too I cannot be called anything other than what I am, a Christian.”
― Herbert Musurillo, The Acts of the Christian Martyrs