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.
TERTULLIANChristians are made, not born.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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 fact is certain because it is impossible.
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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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