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The Lord's Prayer is truly the summary of the whole gospel. Since the Lord...after handling over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere, 'Ask and you will receive,' and since everyone has petitions which are peculiar to his circumstances, the regular and appropriate prayer (the Lord's Prayer) is said first, as the foundation of further desir

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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, We worship God through Christ! Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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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. And now this same Word has appeared as man. He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile
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Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters it carries the whole man along with it.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artistic skill of God is displeasing!
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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 rose again the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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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 state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy
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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 those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts.
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