Fear is the foundation of safety.
TERTULLIANFor it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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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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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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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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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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 ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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