And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
TERTULLIANAnd when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
TERTULLIANTruth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
TERTULLIANA 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.
TERTULLIANIt is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
TERTULLIANCan we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
TERTULLIANThe more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
TERTULLIANThe state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
TERTULLIANI believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
TERTULLIANNature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
TERTULLIANLearn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
TERTULLIANFor 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?
TERTULLIANIt is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
TERTULLIANThere is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
TERTULLIANThe 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.
TERTULLIANThe Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
TERTULLIANChrist, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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