There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
TERTULLIANThe blood of the Christians is seed.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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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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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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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