The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
TERTULLIANCustom without truth is error grown old.
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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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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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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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