Christians’ Response to Pandemics

May we—with our own pandemic—live out the wisdom and way of Jesus before a watching world.
Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria

How suitable, how necessary it is that this plague and pestilence, which seems horrible and deadly, searches out the justice of each and every one and examines the mind of the human race; whether the [healthy] care for the sick, whether relatives dutifully love kinsmen as they should . . . whether physicians do not desert the afflicted.
Cyprian, bishop of Carthage

We must respect the word of Christ, “I was sick and you did not visit me.” According to this passage we are bound to each other in such a way that no one may forsake the other in his distress but is obliged to assist and help him as he himself would like to be helped.
Martin Luther, Wittenberg

Christians’ Response to Pandemics

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If there ever be a time when the mind is sensitive, it is when death is abroad. I recollect, when first I came to London, how anxiously people listened to the gospel, for the cholera was raging terribly. There was little scoffing then.
Charles Spurgeon