I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
TERTULLIANTwo kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Christians are made, not born.
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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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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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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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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 more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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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 is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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