The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Christians are made, not born.
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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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