It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
TERTULLIANChrist, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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 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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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