The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
TERTULLIANThe Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Christians are made, not born.
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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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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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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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