The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
TERTULLIANFor 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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I believe because it is absurd.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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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 fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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