God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
TERTULLIANA man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
More Tertullian Quotes
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He who flees will fight again.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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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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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Christians are made, not born.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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