It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
TERTULLIANChristians are made, not born.
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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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It is to believed 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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