It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
TERTULLIANIt is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
More Tertullian Quotes
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Christians are made, not born.
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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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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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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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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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