Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
TERTULLIANNow then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
TERTULLIANDaily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
TERTULLIANThe Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
TERTULLIANPrevention 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.
TERTULLIANIf 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?
TERTULLIANI believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
TERTULLIANThe soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
TERTULLIANIt is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
TERTULLIANIt is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
TERTULLIANYou cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
TERTULLIANWe 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.
TERTULLIANA man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
TERTULLIANYou can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
TERTULLIANThe whole fruit is already present in the seed.
TERTULLIANHope is patience with the lamp lit.
TERTULLIANHe who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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