Discipline is an index to doctrine.
TERTULLIANThe blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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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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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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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