A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
TERTULLIANThe Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Christians are made, not born.
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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 flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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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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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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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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