black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Tertullian

Discipline is an index to doctrine.
TERTULLIAN

Discipline One Liner
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
TERTULLIAN

Fire Food
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
TERTULLIAN

Deep Present
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.
TERTULLIAN

Principles Religious
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
TERTULLIAN

Power Religious Violence
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
TERTULLIAN

Birth Death Murder
I believe because it is absurd.
TERTULLIAN

Believe Myself
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
TERTULLIAN

Impossible One Liner
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIAN

Men Present
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
TERTULLIAN

Nature Religion
Custom without truth is error grown old.
TERTULLIAN

Growth Old Truth
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
TERTULLIAN

Atheist Men Nature Prayer
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
TERTULLIAN

Hope One Liner Patience
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
TERTULLIAN

Apperance Blind Easy Kind
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
TERTULLIAN

End Live Marriage
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
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
TERTULLIAN

Devil Men Sick
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.
TERTULLIAN

Beautiful Lust Religious
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
TERTULLIAN

Enemy Hurt Religious
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
TERTULLIAN

Temples Women
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
TERTULLIAN

Hero King People Violence
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
TERTULLIAN

Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
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
Those who fled will fight another time.
TERTULLIAN

Fight One Liner Time
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
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
TERTULLIAN

Discipline Faith Judgement Quality
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
TERTULLIAN

Hate One Liner Reaction Truth

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tertullian Quotes