If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
TERTULLIANHe is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
More Tertullian Quotes
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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