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?
TERTULLIANThe fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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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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Christians are made, not born.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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 blood of the Christians is seed.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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