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.
TERTULLIANPrevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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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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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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He who flees will fight again.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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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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