Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
TERTULLIANThe flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
More Tertullian Quotes
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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