Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
TERTULLIANThe 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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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Christians are made, not born.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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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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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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