"Discipline is an index to doctrine." — Tertullian

"Discipline is an index to doctrine."

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95 Quotes by Tertullian

Tertullian has 95 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were… — Karen Armstrong
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you… — Russell Banks
To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark… — Roseanne Barr
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little… — Bruce Barton
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to… — Bernard Baruch
From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work. — Dirk Benedict
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely… — Annie Besant
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. — Theodor Adorno
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage,… — Jacqueline Bisset
I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time. — Bjork

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