The fact is certain because it is impossible.
TERTULLIANTruth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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 absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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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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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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