Quotes from Tertullian
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.
- Tertullian
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
- Tertullian
Fear is the foundation of safety.
- Tertullian
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.
- Tertullian
Those who fled will fight another time.
- Tertullian
Custom without truth is error grown old.
- Tertullian
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
- Tertullian
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
- Tertullian
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
- Tertullian
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
- Tertullian
The nature of rumor is known to all.
- Tertullian
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
- Tertullian