Tertullian Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.
-
All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.
-
It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.
-
There is one God. The Jews and the Christians have no monopoly on God. I'm speaking about the same God the Hindus talk about, the same God the Muslims talk about, the same God that the Taoists and the Confucians talk about.
-
Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.
-
Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.
-
Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.
-
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from the cross are written in sharp-edged terms across some of the most inexpressible tragedies of history: 'They know not what they do'.
-
We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.
-
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
-
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.
-
The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
-
I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.
-
Today Christians... stand at the head of Germany... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian Spirit.
-
The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.
-
Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always conduct themselves politically as if Christianity were just another special-interest group? Do Christians conduct evangelism this way?.
-
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
-
It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.
-
One of our driving questions throughout this study will always be what these Christians meant by saying “Jesus is God.” As we will see, different Christians meant different things by it.
-
It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.
-
I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.
-
See how these Christians love one another.
