What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
TERTULLIANHope is patience with the lamp lit.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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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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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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