Where our joy is, there should our work be.
TERTULLIANThe flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
More Tertullian Quotes
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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You 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.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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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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