Christians are made, not born.
TERTULLIANThe whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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The blood of the 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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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