What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
TERTULLIANNothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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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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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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