Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
TERTULLIANIt is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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