Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
TERTULLIANSee how these Christians love one another.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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The 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 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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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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See how these Christians love one another.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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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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It is certain because it is possible.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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