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Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those…

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For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and absolutely, called…
Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did…
Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed…
He who retains unchangeable in his heart the rule of the truth which he received by means of baptism will doubtless recognise…
And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting place that this class of men [i.e., the gnostics]…
[Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and…
[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy,…
He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and…
It is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles,…
He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled…
The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.
The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.

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Perversity is the muse of modern literature. — Susan Sontag
Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did… — Irenaeus of Lyons
There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity. — Octave Mirbeau
Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which… — Clifford D. Simak
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance -- — Robert A. Heinlein
I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity… — Russell Kirk
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it. — William James
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman
Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence. — Dave Hickey
I could be mistaken, but I believe the majority of artists are perverts, and that inspiration springs from the seat of perversity;… — James Jean
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice,… — Marcel Proust

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