The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
TERTULLIANThe first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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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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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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