It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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 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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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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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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