How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
TERTULLIANNow 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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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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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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