The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
TERTULLIANNothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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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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He who flees will fight again.
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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 more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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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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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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