He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
TERTULLIANTo forbid birth is only quicker murder.
More Tertullian Quotes
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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 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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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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