Quotes By Tertullian

The entire fruit is already present in the seed.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

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

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

See how these Christians love one another.

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

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

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

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

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

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.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

He who flees will fight again.

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

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

It is certain because it is possible.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

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

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

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.

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

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

Christians are made, not born.

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