Tertullian Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

  Tertullian

  Soul, Doe, Moments

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.405, Jazzybee Verlag

• Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

  Tertullian

  Soul, Flesh, Birth

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.426, Jazzybee Verlag

• Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.

  Tertullian

  Teacher, Nature, Soul

• The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God

  Tertullian

  Blood, Soul, Body

  Tertullian “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian, Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

• We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.

  Tertullian

  Eye, Cutting, Thinking

• Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Jesus, Men

• The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.

  Tertullian

  Soul, Lust, Maidens

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