The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
TERTULLIANDiscipline is an index to doctrine.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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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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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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