Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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