Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
TERTULLIANThe nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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