I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
TERTULLIANMen remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Christians are made, not born.
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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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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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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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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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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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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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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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