Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
TERTULLIANHe who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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 whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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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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