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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
TertullianTertullian The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
TertullianTertullian You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
TertullianTertullian God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
TertullianTertullian Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
TertullianTertullian The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
TertullianTertullian Discipline is an index to doctrine.
TertullianTertullian The first reaction to truth is hatred.
TertullianTertullian The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
TertullianTertullian The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
TertullianTertullian It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
TertullianTertullian Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
TertullianTertullian 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.
TertullianTertullian 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.
TertullianTertullian He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
TertullianTertullian Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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