Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
TERTULLIANPatience is God’s nature.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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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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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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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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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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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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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