He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
TERTULLIANIt is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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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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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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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 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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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