Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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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 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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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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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Christians are made, not born.
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