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.
TERTULLIANThose who fled will fight another time.
More Tertullian Quotes
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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 certain because it is possible.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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