Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
TERTULLIANPatience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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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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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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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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