What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
TERTULLIANThe fact is certain because it is impossible.
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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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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Patience is God’s nature.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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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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