Quotes about Tertullian

The nature of rumor is known to all.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.

I'm now reading Tertullian, Cyprian, and others of the church fathers with great interest. In some ways they are more relevant to our time than the Reformers, and at the same time they provide a basis for talks between Protestants and Roman Catholics.

Trinity. It wasn't until the third century that Tertullian (150—240), sometimes called "the founder of Western Christian theology," first coined this word Trinity from the Latin trinitas, meaning "triad," or trinus, meaning "threefold." Again, the word itself is not found in the Bible; it took history awhile to find a proper word for this always-elusive "rubber band.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy

The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.