Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
TERTULLIANIt is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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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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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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For 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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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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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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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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