It is certain because it is impossible.
TERTULLIANHope is patience with the lamp lit.
More Tertullian Quotes
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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He who flees will fight again.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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