Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
TERTULLIANIt is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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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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Christians are made, not born.
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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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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