Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
TERTULLIANIt is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
More Tertullian Quotes
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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 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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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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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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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