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.
TERTULLIANHe who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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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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Christians are made, not born.
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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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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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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