The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
TERTULLIANThe blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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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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Christians are made, not born.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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He who flees will fight again.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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