He who flees will fight again.
TERTULLIANShall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
More Tertullian Quotes
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See how these Christians love one another.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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