For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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Christians are made, not born.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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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 who flees will fight again.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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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