Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
TERTULLIANAnd when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
More Tertullian Quotes
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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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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