There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
TERTULLIANThe first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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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 soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Christians are made, not born.
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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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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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He who flees will fight again.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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