Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
TERTULLIANLet women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
More Tertullian Quotes
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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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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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