"Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier." — Tertullian

"Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier."

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95 Quotes by Tertullian

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He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too,…
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come…
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,…
Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all…
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry.…
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps…
In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while…
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…
[T]he Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [are] three ... not in condition, but in degree; not in substance,…

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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years… — Karen Armstrong
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the… — Teresa of Avila
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for… — Teresa of Avila
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate… — Teresa of Avila
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces… — Teresa of Avila
You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar. — Sebastian Bach
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center… — Michele Bachmann
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared… — William Barclay
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained… — William Barclay
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth
Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day.… — Bruce Barton

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