He who flees will fight again.
TERTULLIANIt is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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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 first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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