Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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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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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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