The first reaction to truth is hatred.
TERTULLIANPatience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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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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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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Christians are made, not born.
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