We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible.

The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.

And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

If some should accuse us as if we held that people born before the time of Christ were not accountable to God for their actions, we shall anticipate and answer such a difficulty. We have been taught that Christ is the first-begotten of God, and we have declared him to be the Logos of which all mankind partakes. Those, therefore, who lived according to reason (logos) were really Christians, even though they were thought to be atheists, such as, among the Greeks, Socrates, Heraclitus and others like them.

For I choose to follow not men or men's doctrines, but God and the doctrines [delivered] by Him. For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth], and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians

We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible.