He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
TERTULLIANIf 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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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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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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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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