He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
TERTULLIANDivorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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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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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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