The blood of the Christians is seed.
TERTULLIANDaily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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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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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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