The first reaction to truth is hatred.
TERTULLIANYou can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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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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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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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To forbid birth is only quicker 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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See how these Christians love one another.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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