Christians are made, not born.
TERTULLIANThe blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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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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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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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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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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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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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