The first reaction to truth is hatred.
TERTULLIANShall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
More Tertullian Quotes
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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.
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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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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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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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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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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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