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I believe because it is absurd.

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Tertullian
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Carthage
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
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The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being. And now this same Word has appeared as man. He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art.
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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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See how these Christians love one another.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Patience is God's nature.
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It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile
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If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.
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The Lord challenges us to suffer persecutions and to confess Him. He wants thiose who belong to him to be brave and fearless. He himself shows how weakness of the flesh is overcome by courage of the Spirit....A christian is fearless.
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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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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.
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