Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
TERTULLIANCustom without truth is error grown old.
More Tertullian Quotes
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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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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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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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