The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
TERTULLIANWhere our work is, there let our joy be.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Christians are made, not born.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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