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.
TERTULLIANThe nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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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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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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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