Quotes by
Tertullian |
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, 155-240 AD , Berber-Roman Christian author
A theologian in the early Christian church, known for his powerful denunciations of many influences he considered heretical, including the widespread admiration of pagan philosophers and Gnostic ideas. | 19 quotes | 1,979 visits |
Quotations
| • | God is known first through Nature, and then again, more particularly, by doctrine; by Nature in His works, and by doctrine in His revealed word. 3 |
| • | Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. 2 |
| • | Woman is a temple built over a sewer. 2 |
| • | What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? (was against Greek philosophy) 1 |
| • | The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. |
| • | Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money. |
| • | Hope is patience with the lamp lit. |
| • | Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache. |
| • | Just as no soul is without sin, so neither is any soul without seeds of good. |
| • | God the Father is a deep root; the Son is the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty and fragrance. |
| • | 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. |
| • | It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil. |
| • | I must dispel vanity with vanity. |
| • | Christians are made, not born. Fiunt non nascuntur Christiani. |
| • | The Jews formed the breeding ground of all anti-Christian actions. |
Latin Quotes
| • | I believe because it is absurd. Credo quia absurdum. 51 |
| • | Truth does not blush. Nihil veritas erubescit. |
| • | It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. Nec religionis est cogere religionem. |
| • | It is certain because it is impossible. Certum est quia impossibile. |
