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.
TERTULLIANI believe because it is absurd.
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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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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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 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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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