The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
TERTULLIANYou can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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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