Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
TERTULLIANThe more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Christians are made, not born.
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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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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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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