The fact is certain because it is impossible.
TERTULLIANAnd when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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