He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIANWhere our work is, there let our joy be.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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?
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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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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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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