The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
TERTULLIANI believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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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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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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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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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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