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?
TERTULLIANYou can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
More Tertullian Quotes
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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He who flees will fight again.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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 flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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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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