Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
TERTULLIANI believe because it is absurd.
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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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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You 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.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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