"The Christian does not hurt even his enemy." — Tertullian

"The Christian does not hurt even his enemy."

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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,…
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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Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the… — Saint Augustine
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
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