See how these Christians love one another.
TERTULLIANThe 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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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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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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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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