It is certain because it is possible.
TERTULLIANPrayer is the one thing that can conquer 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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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