It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
TERTULLIANMen remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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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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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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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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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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