The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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He who flees will fight again.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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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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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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