The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
TERTULLIANThe nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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