A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
TERTULLIANChrist, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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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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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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