I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
TERTULLIANPatience is God’s nature.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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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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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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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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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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He who flees will fight again.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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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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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