Discipline is an index to doctrine.
TERTULLIANIt is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
More Tertullian Quotes
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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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It is certain because it is possible.
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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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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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We 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.
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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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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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