Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
TERTULLIANThe fact is certain because it is impossible.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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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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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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