The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
TERTULLIANLearn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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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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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 flees will fight again.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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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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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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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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