Quotes from Tertullian

He who flees will fight again...

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

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

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

Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

It is certain because it is impossible

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

You say we worship the sun; so do you.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit

Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord at once of the world which is ruled, and of man himself who rules; if He have not ordained the changes of dynasties, with their appointed seasons, who was before all time, and made the world a body of times; if the rise and the fall of states are not the work of Him, under whose sovereignty the human race once existed without states at all.

Credere quia absurdum est