Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
TERTULLIANFor 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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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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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