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?
TERTULLIANTwo kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
More Tertullian Quotes
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Christians are made, not born.
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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.
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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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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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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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