Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
TERTULLIANThe fact is certain because it is impossible.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Christians are made, not born.
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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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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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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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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 soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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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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