Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
TERTULLIANChristians are made, not born.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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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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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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