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• The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

  Tertullian

  Nature, Rumor, Known

  "Apologetical Works; Octavius".

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• What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and to live to God? These are the pleasures - these are the spectacles - that befit Christian men.

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  Christian, Men, Feet

  Tertullian “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian, Volume 1”, Jazzybee Verlag

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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.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Expression, Flames

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• All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced...the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.

  Tertullian

  Giving, Principles, Scripture

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• I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.

  Tertullian

  Bible, Christian, Scripture

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.821, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Those who fled will fight another time.

  Tertullian

  Time, Fighting, Shrewdness

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• Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.

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  Kings, Hero, Violence

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• Let the emperor make war on heaven; let him lead heaven captive in his triumph; let him put guards on heaven; let him impose taxes on heaven! He cannot. . . . He gets his sceptre where he first got his humanity; his power where he got the breath of life.

  Tertullian

  War, Heaven, Humanity

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.140, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.

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  Thinking, Doe, Asking

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• The blood of Christians is seed.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Blood, Seeds

  Tertullian, Robert Sider (2001). “Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire”, p.69, CUA Press

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• He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Sarcastic, Two

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• Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships [financial overseers]and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Mean, Sacrifice

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• Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.

  Tertullian

  Sarcastic, Dog, Various

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.543, Jazzybee Verlag

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

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  Soul, Lust, Maidens

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• But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.

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  Christian, Sex, Passion

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.1309, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

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  God, Way, Strife

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• And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.

  Tertullian

  Marriage, Ends, Marrying

  Tertullian (1951). “Treatises on Marriage and Remarriage: To His Wife : An Exhortation to Chastity : Monogamy”, p.58, Paulist Press

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• How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!

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  Men, Devil, Disease

  "The Sacred Writings of Tertullian".

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• For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?

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  War, Numbers, Discipline

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