In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
If equanimity be the contention, you have Lycurgus choosing death by self-starvation, because the Lacons had made some emendation of his laws: the Christian, even when he is condemned, gives thanks.