The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
TERTULLIANHow many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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He who flees will fight again.
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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Christians are made, not born.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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