Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
TERTULLIANYou cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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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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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of 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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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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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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