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.
TERTULLIANThe blood of the Christians is seed.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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