It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
TERTULLIANGod 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 blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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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 Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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