It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
TERTULLIANPrayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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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.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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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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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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See how these Christians love one another.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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