Custom without truth is error grown old.
TERTULLIANThe 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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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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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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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