For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
TERTULLIANPatience is God’s nature.
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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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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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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 joy is, there should our work be.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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