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?
TERTULLIANArguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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