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.
TERTULLIANLet women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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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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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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