Tertullian Quotes

Powerful Tertullian for Daily Growth

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

- Tertullian

Hope, Patience, Lit, Lamp

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

- Tertullian

Religious, Offspring, Vow

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

- Tertullian

Better, Either, Too, Wander

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

- Tertullian

Fire, Out, Frying, Pan

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

- Tertullian

Nothing, Achieve, About, Headache

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

- Tertullian

Jerusalem, Athens

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

- Tertullian

Birth, Prevention

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

Pain, Will, Away, Injure

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

- Tertullian

Faith, Judge, Behave, Doctrine

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

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Living, Other, Usual, Reply

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

- Tertullian

World, Himself, Lives, Dies

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

- Tertullian

Themselves, Indeed, Philosophy

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

- Tertullian

See, Blindness, Easily, Appear

The nature of rumor is known to all.

- Tertullian

Nature, Known, Rumor

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

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Freedom, Nothing, Pieces, Parcel

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

- Tertullian

Truth, Hatred, Reaction, Truth Is

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

- Tertullian

Life, Seed, Always, Be A Man

Fear is the foundation of safety.

- Tertullian

Fear, Foundation, Safety

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

- Tertullian

Truth, Enemy, Appears, Hatred

See how these Christians love one another.

- Tertullian

Love, See, How, Christians

Christians are made, not born.

- Tertullian

Born, Made, Christians

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

- Tertullian

Seed, Grow, Mow, Christians

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

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Church, Seed, Martyrs, Blood

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

- Tertullian

Nature, Evil, Either, Shame

It is certain because it is impossible.

- Tertullian

Because, Certain, Impossible

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

- Tertullian

Money, Nothing, God

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