Tertullian Quotes

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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…
• Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
• Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• [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…
• In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet the human being…
• Patience is God's nature.
• I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.
• When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess…
• [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…
• The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
• The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God
• It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
• The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
• 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…
• Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
• But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the…
• Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.

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