Patience is God’s nature.
TERTULLIANThe more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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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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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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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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