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?
TERTULLIANWoman is a temple built over a sewer.
More Tertullian Quotes
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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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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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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