Quotes from Tertullian
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
- Tertullian
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
- Tertullian
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
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In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race.
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See how these Christians love one another.
- Tertullian
Christians are made, not born.
- Tertullian
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
- Tertullian
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'
- Tertullian
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.
- Tertullian