Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
TERTULLIANIt is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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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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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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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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Christians are made, not born.
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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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