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Justin Martyr Quotes: We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people and pray for our enemies.
         

We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people and pray for our enemies.


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Let it be understood that those who are not found living as He taught are not Christian- even though they profess with the lips the teaching of Christ.

Let it be understood that those who are not found living as He taught are not Christian- even though they profess with the lips the teaching of Christ.



By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.



Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself.

Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself.



We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us.

We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us.



No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.

No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.



The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.

The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.



We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible.

We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible.



And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.

And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.



If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.

If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.



In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Esculapius.

In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Esculapius.





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Nothing radically changes when instead of human satisfaction, we think of the satisfaction of some heavenly being! God's person displaces the problem and does not abolish it.

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Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

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One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.

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