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Early Christianity4 quotes
There cannot be salvation for any, except in the Church. — St. Cyprian · 256He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother. — St. Cyprian · 251Christians are not born, but made. — St. Jerome · 403It is to believed because it is absurd. — Tertullian · 206Age of Enlightenment1 quote
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. — David Hume · 1748Classical antiquity1 quote
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. — Tertullian · 197The Renaissance1 quote
Prosperity is the Blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the Blessing of the New. — Francis Bacon · 1625