You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
TERTULLIANYou can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
TERTULLIANThe more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
TERTULLIANIt is certain because it is impossible.
TERTULLIANHope is patience with the lamp lit.
TERTULLIANPrevention 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.
TERTULLIANNow 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.
TERTULLIANHow many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
TERTULLIANDaily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
TERTULLIANThe blood of the Christians is seed.
TERTULLIANPatience is God’s nature.
TERTULLIANIt is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
TERTULLIANIf 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?
TERTULLIANYou 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.
TERTULLIANOut of the frying pan, into the fire.
TERTULLIANHe who flees will fight again.
TERTULLIANDivorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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