Where our joy is, there should our work be.
TERTULLIANWhere our joy is, there should our work be.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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