Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Christians are made, not born.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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He who flees will fight again.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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?
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Patience is God’s nature.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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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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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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