I believe because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANThe first reaction to truth is hatred.
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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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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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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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