Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
TERTULLIANShall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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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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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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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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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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