Tertullian Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Tertullian:
Christians are made, not born.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
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The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
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Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.
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He who flees will fight again.
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The nature of rumor is known to all.
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