Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
TERTULLIANThe state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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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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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He who flees will fight again.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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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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