Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
TERTULLIANGod the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
More Tertullian Quotes
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It is certain because it is possible.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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He who flees will fight again.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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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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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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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