I believe because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANDiscipline is an index to doctrine.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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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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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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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 martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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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