For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
TERTULLIANDivorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
More Tertullian Quotes
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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He who flees will fight again.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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