Tertullian Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Usual, Way, Earning

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• 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.

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  Soul, Doe, Moments

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

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• The Law found more than it lost when Christ said, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven’ (Matthew 5:44-45). This most important commandment summarizes in a word the universal discipline of patience, since it does not allow us to do evil even to people who deserve it.

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  Father, Love You, Son

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

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  Truth, Hatred, Enemy

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• I believe because it is absurd.

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  Believe, I Believe, Absurd

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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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  Discipline, Judging, Quality

  "The Prescriptions Against the Heretics" by Tertullian, as translated by Stanley Lawrence Greenslade in "Early Latin Theology: Selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome" (p. 63), 1956.

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• Where our work is, there let our joy be.

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  Inspirational, Christian, Work

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• It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.

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  Nature, Men, Religion

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.247, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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  Christian, Blood, Grows

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• It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

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  Evil, Violence, Forbidden

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• The whole fruit is already present in the seed.

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  Fruit, Seeds

  "Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire".

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• Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.

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  Art, Fall, Race

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• Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

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  Inspirational, Teaching, Doe

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

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• Woman is a temple built over a sewer.

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  Temples, Christian Women, Sewers

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• Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

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  Prevention, Birth, Murder

  Tertullian, Aeterna Press (2016). “Tertullian Collection [2 Books]”, p.122, Aeterna Press

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• It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.

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  Office, Church, Speak

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• The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.

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  Christian, Hurt, Enemy

  Tertullian, Minucius Felix (2010). “Apologetical Works; Octavius”, p.114, CUA Press

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

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  Freedom, Pieces, Parcel

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• Where our joy is, there should our work be.

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  Work, Joy, Should

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• It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God, your liver is your temple, your paunch is your altar, the cook is your priest, and the fat steam is your Holy Spirit; the seasonings and the sauces are your chrisms, and your belchings are your prophesizing...[such] a grossly- feeding Christian is akin to lions and wolves rather than God. Our Lord Jesus called Himself Truth and not habit.

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  Christian, Jesus, Drinking

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• 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.

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  Soul, Flesh, Birth

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

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• Patience is God's nature.

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  Patience

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.1161, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.

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  Eye, Ties, Necks

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• See how these Christians love one another.

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  Christian, Love One Another

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• Christians are made, not born.

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  Christian, Born, Made

  Tertullian, Robert Sider (2001). “Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire”, p.38, CUA Press

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