Patience is God’s nature.
TERTULLIANHow many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
More Tertullian Quotes
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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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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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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