See how these Christians love one another.
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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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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