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?
TERTULLIANThe flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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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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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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