Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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