It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
TERTULLIANThe Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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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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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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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 pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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