For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
TERTULLIANPrevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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