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.
TERTULLIANChrist, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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 whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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He who flees will fight again.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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 fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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