The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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 more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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