Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
TERTULLIANPrevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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Christians are made, not born.
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He who flees will fight again.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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