A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
TERTULLIANDiscipline is an index to doctrine.
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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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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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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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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