It is to believed because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANIt is to believed because it is absurd.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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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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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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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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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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