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God Quotes by Tertullian
- Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
- 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,…
- [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…
- Patience is God's nature.
- [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 flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God
- In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not…
- 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…
- For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony.…
- 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…
- 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…
- We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a…
- For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according…
- Do you not know that you are Eve? The judgment of God upon this sex lives on in this age; therefore, necessarily the guilt should…
- 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…
- God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance
- You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then…
- Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of…
- There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
- Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money
- 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…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi