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.
TERTULLIANOut of the frying pan, into the fire.
More Tertullian Quotes
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We 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.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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