It is certain because it is possible.
TERTULLIANThe soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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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 state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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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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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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For 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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