Those who fled will fight another time.
TERTULLIANThe first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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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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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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