The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
TERTULLIANAnd when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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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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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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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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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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