The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
TERTULLIANPrevention 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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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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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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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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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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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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