It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
TERTULLIANIt is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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