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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

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Tertullian
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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
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For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work.... How unworthy of the Christian name it is to wear a fictitious face - you on whom simplicity in every form is enjoined! You, to whom lying with the tongue is not lawful, are lying in appearance.
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The blood of the Christians is seed
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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 or a life that is coming to birth.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God
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Patience is God's nature.
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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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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride and maiden's souls are such.
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