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.
TERTULLIANLet women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
More Tertullian Quotes
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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He who flees will fight again.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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Christians are made, not born.
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