The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
TERTULLIANIt is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
More Tertullian Quotes
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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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