Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
TERTULLIANNow 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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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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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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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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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