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Tertullian Quotes

Type:
Author Quotes
Category:
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Year of Birth:
160
Year of Death:
225
Nationality:
Roman
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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.
Tertullian

Fear is the foundation of safety.
Tertullian

He who flees will fight again.
Tertullian

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
Tertullian

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Tertullian

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.
Tertullian

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
Tertullian

It is certain because it is impossible.
Tertullian

It is certain because it is possible.
Tertullian

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
Tertullian

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
Tertullian

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Tertullian

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
Tertullian

See how these Christians love one another.
Tertullian

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Tertullian

The entire fruit is already present in the seed.
Tertullian

The first reaction to truth is hatred.
Tertullian

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
Tertullian

The nature of rumor is known to all.
Tertullian

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.
Tertullian

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
Tertullian

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
Tertullian

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
Tertullian

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
Tertullian

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
Tertullian

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
Tertullian


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