Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
TERTULLIANDaily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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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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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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