It is to believed because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANWe 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.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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He who flees will fight again.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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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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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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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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