Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
TERTULLIANHope is patience with the lamp lit.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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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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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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