He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
TERTULLIANFor what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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