Patience is God’s nature.
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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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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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Christians are made, not born.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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