It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
TERTULLIANChristians are made, not born.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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He who flees will fight again.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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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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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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