Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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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 certain because it is possible.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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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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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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