Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
TERTULLIANHe who flees will fight again.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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He who flees will fight again.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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