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?
TERTULLIANDaily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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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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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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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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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