Simon Greenleaf – It is impossible that the apostles persisted in affirming the gospel had not Jesus rose from the dead.

The great truths which the apostles declared, where that Christ had risen from the dead, and that only through repentance from sin, and faith in him, could men hope for salvation. This doctrine they asserted with one voice, everywhere, not only under the greatests discouragements, but in the face of the most appalling terrors that can be presented to the mind of man.

Augustine: Thou, the One, the Good God, hast never ceased to do good

We therefore see those things which Thou madest, because they are; but they are because Thou seest them. And we see without that they are, and within that they are good, but Thou didst see them there, when made, where Thou didst see them to be made. And we were at another time moved to … Continue reading Augustine: Thou, the One, the Good God, hast never ceased to do good