Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
TERTULLIANHe who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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