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.
TERTULLIANPrayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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