The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
TERTULLIANThe fact is certain because it is impossible.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of 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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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