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.
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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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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