black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Tertullian

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
TERTULLIAN

Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
Nature 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.
TERTULLIAN

Nature Soul Teaching
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.
TERTULLIAN

Believe Himself Men Religious
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
TERTULLIAN

Men Patience Woman
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
TERTULLIAN

Born Death Difference Life
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
TERTULLIAN

Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
TERTULLIAN

Achievement Argument
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
TERTULLIAN

Nature Poet Rumor
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
TERTULLIAN

Divorce Marriage Religious
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
TERTULLIAN

End Live Marriage
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
TERTULLIAN

Enemy Hurt Religious
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
TERTULLIAN

God Money
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.
TERTULLIAN

Enough God Men Reveal
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?
TERTULLIAN

Earth Religious Sky
Patience is God’s nature.
TERTULLIAN

God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
TERTULLIAN

Fire Food

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tertullian Quotes