"Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy" — Tertullian
"Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy"
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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,…
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come…
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks,…
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Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all…
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry.…
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[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps…
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In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while…
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Patience is God's nature.
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I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.
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When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of…
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[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 Heresies Quotes
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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol…
— Unknown Author
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And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has…
— Saint Augustine
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The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of…
— Umberto Eco
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises,…
— George Orwell
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Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss…
— Zhuangzi
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For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that…
— William Shakespeare
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It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided…
— Charles Spurgeon
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