The fact is certain because it is impossible.
TERTULLIANIt is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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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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Christians are made, not born.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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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.
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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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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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