The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
TERTULLIANDiscipline is an index to doctrine.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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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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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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