Words matter. These are the best Tertullian Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
Christians are made, not born.
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
The usual complaint is, ‘I have no other way of earning a living.’ The harsh reply can be, ‘Do you have to live?’
The nature of rumor is known to all.
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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.
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
It is certain because it is impossible.
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
Christians are made, not born.
It is certain because it is impossible.
See how these Christians love one another.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
The nature of rumor is known to all.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
