It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
TERTULLIANLet women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Christians are made, not born.
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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.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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