Those who fled will fight another time.
TERTULLIANPatience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
More Tertullian Quotes
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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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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 Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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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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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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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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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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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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See how these Christians love one another.
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