The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
TERTULLIANThe more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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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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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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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 more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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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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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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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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He who flees will fight again.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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