It is certain because it is impossible.
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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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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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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 first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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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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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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