Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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