A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
TERTULLIANHe who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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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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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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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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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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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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