God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
TERTULLIANPrevention 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.
More Tertullian Quotes
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Patience is God’s nature.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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The whole fruit is already 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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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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