He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
TERTULLIANNothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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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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Christians are made, not born.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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