Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
TERTULLIANI believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Christians are made, not born.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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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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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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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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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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