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.
TERTULLIANHope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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