The blood of the Christians is seed.
TERTULLIANThere is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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