The blood of the Christians is seed.
TERTULLIANI believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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 whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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