The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
TERTULLIANWhere our joy is, there should our work be.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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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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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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