Tertullian Quotes - Page 4

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• Fear is the foundation of safety.

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  Safety, Foundation, Workplace Safety

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• Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

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  Nature, Evil, Shame

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• It is certain because it is possible.

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  Possibility, Certain, Certitude

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• It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

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  Impossible, Certain, Certainty

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• Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe, and all things contained in the heaven, the sea, and the earth, that they might be consecrated as God in opposition to God." All things, therefore, does human error worship, except the Founder of all himself. The images of those things are idols; the consecration of the images is idolatry.

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  Religious, Errors, Idols

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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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  Lying, Men, Causes

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• 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.

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  Eye, Cutting, Thinking

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• [T]he Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [are] three ... not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in form; not in power, but in aspect; yet of one substance, and of one condition, and of one power, inasmuch as He is one God, from whom these degrees and forms and aspects are reckoned, under the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

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  Father, Son, Names

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• The blood of the Christians is seed

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  Christian, Blood, Seeds

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• It is to believed because it is absurd.

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  Absurd

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• Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work.... How unworthy of the Christian name it is to wear a fictitious face - you on whom simplicity in every form is enjoined! You, to whom lying with the tongue is not lawful, are lying in appearance.

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  Christian, Lying, Names

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• Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

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  Beauty, Eye, Carpe Diem

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• Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

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  Soldier, Violence, Christ

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• He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

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  Men, Abortion, Fruit

  Tertullian (1960). “Octavius”

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• It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

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  "Ad Scapulam". 2.2,

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• If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are so well acquainted, does it not merit praise instead of penalty [Christians were punished for not worshiping Roman gods] that we have rejected what we have come to see is error? We cannot surely be made out to injure those whom we are certain are nonentities. What does not exist is in its nonexistence secure from suffering.

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  Christian, Religious, Errors

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Nature, Soul

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• I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.

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  Kings, Judging, Soldier

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• When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess that we disown the devil, his pomp, and his angels. After this we are immersed three times, making a somewhat larger pledge than the Lord appointed in the Gospel. Then we are taken up [a reference to the Roman tradition of recognizing a newborn baby as a member of the family]. We first taste a mixture of milk and honey and from that day we refrain from the daily bath for a whole week.

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  Baby, Taken, Angel

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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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  Fall, Men, Race

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.136, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

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  Fire, Frying Pans, Thai

  Tertullian (1956). “De Carne Christi Liber: Treatise on the Incarnation”

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• Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

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  Eye, Paint, Chastity

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• [Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art.

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  Religious, Art, Divorce

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• It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

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  Men, Atheism, Privilege

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

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• Keep always in mind the rule of faith which I profess and by which I bear witness that the Father and the Son and the Spirit are inseparable from each other, and then you will understand what is meant by it. Observe now that I say the Father is other [distinct], the Son is other, and the Spirit is other. This statement is wrongly understood by every uneducated or perversely disposed individual, as if it meant diversity and implied by that diversity a separation of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

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  Father, Son, Diversity

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