You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
TERTULLIANThe more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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