Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
TERTULLIANFear is the foundation of safety.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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He who flees will fight again.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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