Custom without truth is error grown old.
TERTULLIANPatience is God’s nature.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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?
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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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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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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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