Where our work is, there let our joy be.
TERTULLIANHope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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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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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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