It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
TERTULLIANWoman is a temple built over a sewer.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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