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.
TERTULLIANPatience is God’s nature.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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