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.
TERTULLIANFear is the foundation of safety.
More Tertullian Quotes
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I believe because it is absurd.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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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 state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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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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