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.
TERTULLIANGod 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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Christians are made, not born.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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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 flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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