"Hope is patience with the lamp lit." — Tertullian

"Hope is patience with the lamp lit."

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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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More Hope Quotes

This quote is filed under Hope Quotes, one of 13,380 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving… — Arthur Ashe
Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can… — Julian Assange
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason… — David Attenborough
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say… — David Attenborough
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to… — David Attenborough
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race -… — Margaret Atwood

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