It is to believed because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANFear is the foundation of safety.
More Tertullian Quotes
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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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See how these Christians love one another.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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