It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
TERTULLIANChrist, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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 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 whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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