Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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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.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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