Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
TERTULLIANThe state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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 blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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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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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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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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