Where our work is, there let our joy be.
TERTULLIANWoman is a temple built over a sewer.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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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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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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 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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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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