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He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he…
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice,…
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Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment…
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in…
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[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood,…
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In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet…
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Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in…
— Tertullian
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it…
— Pope Pius XII
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Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally…
— Rajneesh
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The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love…
— Thaddeus Golas
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But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.
— William Shakespeare
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We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the…
— Jean Rostand
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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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