The first reaction to truth is hatred.
TERTULLIANThe soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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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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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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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It is certain because it is possible.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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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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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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