Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
TERTULLIANFor 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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Christians are made, not born.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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