Tertullian

The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.

— Tertullian

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek…

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Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

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The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being.…

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But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even…

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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

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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…

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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.

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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 nature of rumor is known to all

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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away…

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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

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It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober…

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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

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I believe because it is absurd.

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Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely…

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“How beautiful, then, the marriage of two Christians, two who are one in home, one in desire, one in the way of…

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If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

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The angels as the guardians of men are set over men as instructors and monitors. This shows the relationship that is to…

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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…

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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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