The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
TERTULLIANThe pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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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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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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