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.
TERTULLIANHe who flees will fight again.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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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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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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