Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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.
TertullianTertullian There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
TertullianTertullian He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
TertullianTertullian 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.
TertullianTertullian The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
TertullianTertullian Christians are made, not born.
TertullianTertullian Patience is God’s nature.
TertullianTertullian Those who fled will fight another time.
TertullianTertullian Custom without truth is error grown old.
TertullianTertullian The fact is certain because it is impossible.
TertullianTertullian 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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TertullianTertullian It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
TertullianTertullian To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
TertullianTertullian It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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