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.
TERTULLIANThe blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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He who flees will fight again.
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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.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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