Discipline is an index to doctrine.
TERTULLIANTwo kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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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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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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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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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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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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