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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
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Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.
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Patience is God's nature.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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 blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.
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