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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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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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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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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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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