We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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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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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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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See how these Christians love one another.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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