"I believe because it is absurd." — Tertullian

"I believe because it is absurd."

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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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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to… — Honore de Balzac
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. — Wendell Berry
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience… — Annie Besant
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our… — Bono
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of… — Samuel Butler
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help… — David Byrne
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out… — Lord Byron
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them… — Albert Camus
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. — Miguel de Cervantes

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