Those who fled will fight another time.
TERTULLIANCustom without truth is error grown old.
More Tertullian Quotes
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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