I believe because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANNature 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.
More Tertullian Quotes
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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