It is certain because it is possible.
TERTULLIANThe blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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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Christians are made, not born.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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