Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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TertullianTertullian It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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TertullianTertullian It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
TertullianTertullian It is certain because it is possible.
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TertullianTertullian The blood of the Christians is seed.
TertullianTertullian 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.
TertullianTertullian Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
TertullianTertullian 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.
TertullianTertullian The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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