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.
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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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?
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Patience is God’s nature.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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