(Updated June 27, 2025)
This Author Quote Archive collects pertinent quotes from the Church Father, St. Polycarp (69-155).
Next to each quote are the topic-based Quote Archives in which they are included.
This Quote Archive is being continuously updated as research continues.
Letters
St. Polycarp, Letter to the Philippians (c. 135)
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Stand fast, therefore, in these things, and follow the example of the Lord, being firm and unchangeable in the faith, loving the brotherhood (1 Pet. 2:17), and being attached to one another, joined together in the truth, exhibiting the meekness of the Lord in your intercourse with one another, and despising no one. When you can do good, defer it not, because “alms delivers from death” (Tob. 4:10, 12:9). Be all of you subject one to another [1 Pet. 5:5] “having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles” (1 Pet. 2:12), that you may both receive praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed (Isa. 52:5)! Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct.
