Tertullian Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• 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

• Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

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  Soul, Flesh, Birth

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.426, Jazzybee Verlag

• Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.

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  Eye, Ties, Necks

• Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.

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  Flags, Rivals, Violence

• The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God

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  Blood, Soul, Body

  Tertullian “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian, Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

• We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.

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  Believe, Men, Belief

  Tertullian (1842). “Apologetic and Practical Treatises”, p.52

• Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

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  Soldier, Violence, Christ

• The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being. And now this same Word has appeared as man. He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things

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  Lying, Men, Causes

• Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.

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  Christian, Jesus, Men

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