Christians are made, not born.
TERTULLIANDiscipline is an index to doctrine.
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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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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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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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