Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
TERTULLIANAll 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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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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 blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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