I believe BECAUSE it’s 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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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