Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
Tertullian

Christians are made, not born.
Tertullian

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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He who flees will fight again.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
Tertullian

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.
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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
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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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See how these Christians love one another.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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The entire fruit is already present in the seed.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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