You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
TERTULLIANFor 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?
More Tertullian Quotes
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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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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It is certain because it is possible.
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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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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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