What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
TERTULLIANThe more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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Christians are made, not born.
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