The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
TERTULLIANThe soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
More Tertullian Quotes
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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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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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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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.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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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.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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