Fear is the foundation of safety.
TERTULLIANThe blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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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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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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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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