The first reaction to truth is hatred.
TERTULLIANHow many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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He who flees will fight again.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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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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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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 absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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