God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
TERTULLIANWhat has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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