You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
TERTULLIANThe first reaction to truth is hatred.
More Tertullian Quotes
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For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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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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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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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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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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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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