Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
TERTULLIANDiscipline is an index to doctrine.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Christians are made, not born.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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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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