Patience is God’s nature.
TERTULLIANNow 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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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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Christians are made, not born.
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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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