It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
TERTULLIANThose who fled will fight another time.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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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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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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