A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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Christians are made, not born.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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