The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
TERTULLIANIt is to believed because it is absurd.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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