What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
TERTULLIANWhat has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
TERTULLIANSee how these Christians love one another.
TERTULLIANI believe because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANThe fact is certain because it is impossible.
TERTULLIANThe nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
TERTULLIANThe blood of the Christians is seed.
TERTULLIANCan we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
TERTULLIANHow many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
TERTULLIANI believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
TERTULLIANDaily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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.
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?
TERTULLIANThe soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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.
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.
TERTULLIANThe whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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