Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
TERTULLIANPrevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
More Tertullian Quotes
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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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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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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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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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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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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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