The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
TERTULLIANHe who flees will fight again.
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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 our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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