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.
TERTULLIANThere is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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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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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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