The fact is certain because it is impossible.
TERTULLIANThe blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
More Tertullian Quotes
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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