Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
TERTULLIANIt is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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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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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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