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.
TERTULLIANIt is certain because it is impossible.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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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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 absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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