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.
TERTULLIANArguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Christians are made, not born.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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