Where our work is, there let our joy be.
TERTULLIANA 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.
More Tertullian Quotes
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He who flees will fight again.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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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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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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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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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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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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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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