We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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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See how these Christians love one another.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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