It is to believed because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANIt is certain because it is impossible.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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