What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
TERTULLIANYou 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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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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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Where our work is, there let our joy 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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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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 martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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