The first reaction to truth is hatred.
TERTULLIANSee how these Christians love one another.
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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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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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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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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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