Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
TERTULLIANDiscipline is an index to doctrine.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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 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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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