Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
TERTULLIANNow 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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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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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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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