Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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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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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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