Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
TERTULLIANPatience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Where our joy is, there should our work 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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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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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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