The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
TERTULLIANHe who flees will fight again.
More Tertullian Quotes
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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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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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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