The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
TERTULLIANHe is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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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Christians are made, not born.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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