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?
TERTULLIANPrevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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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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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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