Tertullian Quotes

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• The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

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  Blood, Church Today, Christianity

  Speech at Christmas Celebration for Members of Inter-religious Organization by Reverend William Goh, www.catholic.sg. December 29, 2016.

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• You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

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  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Done

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• We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance. There is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.

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  Father, Son, Unity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 285, 1895.

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• Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.

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  Prayer, Fall, Home

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• Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

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  Hate, Ignorance, Men

  Tertullian, Minucius Felix (2010). “Apologetical Works; Octavius”, p.8, CUA Press

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• The first reaction to truth is hatred.

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  Truth, Hatred, Firsts

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• Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money

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  Money, Wealth

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• The Lord challenges us to suffer persecutions and to confess Him. He wants thiose who belong to him to be brave and fearless. He himself shows how weakness of the flesh is overcome by courage of the Spirit....A christian is fearless.

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  Christian, Brave, Fearless

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• Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

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  Patience, Hope, Lamps

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• In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.

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  Men, Blood, Abortion

  "The Sacred Writings of Tertullian".

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• A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

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  Christian, Men, Born

  Tertullian (1869). “The Writings of Quintus Sept. Flor. Tertullianus”, p.37

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• The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.

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  Mean, Son, Rose

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.876, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

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  Scripture, Argument, Headache

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• God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance

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  Father, Son, Roots

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• Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.

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  Differences, Prevention, Birth

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• It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

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  Kindness, Eye, Practice

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• In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God's sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil's gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die... Woman, you are the gate to hell.

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  Sex, Children, Pain

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• He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

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  Life, Selfishness, Benefits

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• The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain

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  Pain, Lying, Feelings

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• Custom without truth is error grown old.

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  Errors, Truth Is, Customs

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• You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

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  Freedom, Pieces, Parcel

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• It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

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  Evil, Violence, Forbidden

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• The Law found more than it lost when Christ said, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven’ (Matthew 5:44-45). This most important commandment summarizes in a word the universal discipline of patience, since it does not allow us to do evil even to people who deserve it.

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  Father, Love You, Son

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• If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

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  Christian, Lions, Feeding

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• Woman is a temple built over a sewer.

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  Temples, Christian Women, Sewers

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