And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
TERTULLIANPatience is God’s nature.
More Tertullian Quotes
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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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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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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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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Christians are made, not born.
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He who flees will fight again.
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