The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
TERTULLIANMen remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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He who flees will fight again.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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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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