It is certain because it is possible.
TERTULLIANNow then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
More Tertullian Quotes
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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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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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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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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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