There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
TERTULLIANFor what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
More Tertullian Quotes
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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