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One Quotes by Tertullian
- 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…
- 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…
- [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 angels as the guardians of men are set over men as instructors and monitors. This shows the relationship that is to exist between them.…
- Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One…
- 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…
- A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
- Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of…
- 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…
- See how these Christians love one another.
- The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a nation to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions
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