You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
TERTULLIANFear is the foundation of safety.
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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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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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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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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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