The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
TERTULLIANI believe because it is absurd.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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