Christians are made, not born.
TERTULLIANHe is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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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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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 is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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