70+ Tertullian Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
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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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
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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Nature Soul Teaching
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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?
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Discipline Law Willing
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
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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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Eyes Kindness Practice
There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
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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Beautiful Lust Religious
The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Blood Body Soul Spiritual
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner

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