Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
TERTULLIANDiscipline is an index to doctrine.
More Tertullian Quotes
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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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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It is certain because it is possible.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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