Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
TERTULLIANThe whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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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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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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