Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
TERTULLIANSee how these Christians love one another.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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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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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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