The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
TERTULLIANThe state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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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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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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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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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