Tertullian Quotes
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It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss of darkness; so many magistrates liquefying in fiercer flames than they ever kindled against the Christians; so many sages philosophers blushing in red-hot fires with their deluded pupils; so many tragedians more tuneful in the expression of their own sufferings; so many dancers tripping more nimbly from anguish then ever before from applause.
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Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord at once of the world which is ruled, and of man himself who rules; if He have not ordained the changes of dynasties, with their appointed seasons, who was before all time, and made the world a body of times; if the rise and the fall of states are not the work of Him, under whose sovereignty the human race once existed without states at all.
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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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There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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The Lord challenges us to suffer persecutions and to confess Him. He wants thiose who belong to him to be brave and fearless. He himself shows how weakness of the flesh is overcome by courage of the Spirit....A christian is fearless.
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The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being. And now this same Word has appeared as man. He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.