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.
TERTULLIANThe blood of the Christians is seed.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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He who flees will fight again.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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I believe because it is absurd.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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