How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
TERTULLIANCan we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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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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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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