God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
TERTULLIANThe state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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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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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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 Christians is seed.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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See how these Christians love one another.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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