The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
TERTULLIANThe Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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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.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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