Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
TERTULLIANYou can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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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 fact is certain because it is impossible.
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