And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
TERTULLIANWhat has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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 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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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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