Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
TERTULLIANCan we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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