Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
TERTULLIANIt is certain because it is possible.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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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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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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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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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 to believed because it is absurd.
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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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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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