I believe because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANPatience is God’s nature.
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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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See how these Christians love one another.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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