He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIANThe first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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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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Christians are made, not born.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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