Custom without truth is error grown old.
TERTULLIANThe whole fruit is already present in the seed.
More Tertullian Quotes
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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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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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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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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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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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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He who flees will fight again.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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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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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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