The fact is certain because it is impossible.
TERTULLIANTruth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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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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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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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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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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