The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
TERTULLIANHe who flees will fight again.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Christians are made, not born.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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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 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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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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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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