Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
TERTULLIANHe is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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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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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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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 flees will fight again.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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