And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
TERTULLIANLearn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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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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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer 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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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He who flees will fight again.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Christians are made, not born.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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 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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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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