It is to believed because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANHope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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