God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
TERTULLIANThe state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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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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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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