Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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He who flees will fight again.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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