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.
TERTULLIANI believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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