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.
TERTULLIANThe more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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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 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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s 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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