It is to believed because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANNothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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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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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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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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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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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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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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