God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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 first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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