The blood of the Christians is seed.
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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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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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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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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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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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