Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
TERTULLIANNothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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