You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
TERTULLIANMen remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
More Tertullian Quotes
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Christians are made, not born.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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