He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
TERTULLIANWe 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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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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