1. “If you imagine for a moment that I would do that, then I think you pretend that you don’t know who I am. Hear it plainly. I am a Christian.” – Polycarp
2. “Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.” – Polycarp
3. “To [Jesus] all things in heaven and on earth were subjected, whom every breathing creature serves, who is coming as judge of the living and the dead, for whose blood God will hold responsible those who disobey him” – Polycarp
4. “Do not regard such people as enemies, but, as sick and straying members, restore them, in order that you may save your body in its entirety. For by doing this you build up one another” – Polycarp
5. “For everyone who does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is antichrist; and whoever does not acknowledge the testimony of the cross is of the devil; and whoever twists the sayings of the Lord to suit his own sinful desires and claims that there is neither resurrection nor judgment—well, that person is the firstborn of Satan” – Polycarp
6. “Pray for all the saints. Pray also for kings and magistrates and rulers, and for those who persecute and hate you, and for the enemies of the cross, so that your fruit may be evident among all people, so that you may be perfect in him” – Polycarp
7. “Be all of you subject one to another having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles, 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! Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct” – Polycarp
8. “I exhort you, press on in your course, and exhort all men that they may be saved.” – Polycarp
9. “Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal high priest himself, the Son of God Jesus Christ, build you up in faith and truth and in all gentleness and in all freedom from anger and forbearance and steadfastness and patient endurance and purity.” – Polycarp
10. “But why do you delay? Come, do what you will.” – Polycarp
11. “Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?” – Polycarp
12. “by grace ye are saved, not of works,’ but by the will of God through Jesus Christ . . . If we please Him in this present world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live worthily of Him, ‘we shall also reign together with Him,’ provided only we believe . . .” – Polycarp
13. “Hear me declare with boldness, I am a Christian.” – Polycarp
14. “For 86 years I have served Jesus Christ and he has never abandoned me. How could I curse my blessed king and savior?” – Polycarp
15. “The younger men must be blameless in all things; they should be concerned about purity above all, reining themselves away from all evil” – Polycarp
16. “Eighty and six years have I served Christ, nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then, could I blaspheme my King who saved Me?….I bless Thee for deigning me worthy of this day and this hour that I may be among Thy martyrs and drink the cup of my Lord Jesus Christ.” – Polycarp
17. “Be obedient to the presbyters and deacons as to God and Christ” – Polycarp
18. “When you can do good, defer it not, because “alms delivers from death.” – Polycarp
19. “If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.” – Polycarp