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.
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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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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He who flees will fight again.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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