How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
TERTULLIANOut of the frying pan, into the fire.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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