"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder." — Tertullian

"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder."

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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 Birth Quotes

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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason… — David Attenborough
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. — Marcus Aurelius
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as… — Francis Bacon
They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should… — Ginger Baker
There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of… — James A. Baldwin
When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I… — Joyce Banda
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and… — Amelia Barr
Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids. — Roseanne Barr
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from… — Charles Baudelaire
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. — Max Beerbohm

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