Christians are made, not born.
TERTULLIANChrist, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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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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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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