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.
TERTULLIANThere is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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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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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 nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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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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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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