Tertullian Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

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

  Tertullian

  Flags, Rivals, Violence

• We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.

  Tertullian

  Eye, Cutting, Thinking

• It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

  Tertullian

  Evil, Violence, Forbidden

• The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Hurt, Enemy

  Tertullian, Minucius Felix (2010). “Apologetical Works; Octavius”, p.114, CUA Press

• For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?

  Tertullian

  War, Numbers, Discipline

• Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

  Tertullian

  Soldier, Violence, Christ

• But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts.

  Tertullian

  Military, Sacrifice, Punishment

• Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.

  Tertullian

  Kings, Hero, Violence

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