TertullianFor those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artist… ▶361Politics
TertullianEvery soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration;… ▶372Time
TertullianThe Lord challenges us to suffer persecutions and to confess Him. He wants thiose who belong to him to be brave and fearless. He himself shows how weakness of the flesh is overcom… ▶353Reading
TertullianNow then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions. ✨ Tertullian (2012). The Sacred Writings of Tertul… ▶375Truth
TertullianIt is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.342Hope
TertullianDivorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.375Thought
Tertullian[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian… ▶367PoliticsSadness
TertullianBut now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades wh… ▶301Death
TertullianHow many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases! ✨ The Sacred Writings of Tertullian.301Humanity
TertullianIt is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God,… ▶312Truth
TertullianFor what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawf… ▶313HumorPolitics
TertullianThe nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.' ✨ Apologetical Works; Octavius.302Love
TertullianIf the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.313Sadness
TertullianOfferings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed… ▶337DeathLifeTruth
TertullianDo you not know that you are Eve? The judgment of God upon this sex lives on in this age; therefore, necessarily the guilt should live on also. You are the gateway of the devil; y… ▶315DeathPolitics
TertullianExamine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord at once of the world which is ruled, and of man himself who rules; if He have not ordained the changes of… ▶359HumanityPoliticsTime
TertullianI revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even H… ▶3610Reflection
TertullianHe has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would n… ▶272Thought
Tertullian[T]he Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [are] three ... not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in form; not in power, but in aspect; yet of one substance, and of… ▶316Politics
TertullianKeep always in mind the rule of faith which I profess and by which I bear witness that the Father and the Son and the Spirit are inseparable from each other, and then you will und… ▶3510HopePoliticsThought
TertullianArguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.338Philosophy
TertullianTwo kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.272Time
TertullianThe first reaction to truth is hatred.349Truth
TertullianGod the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance284Reading
TertullianPatience is God's nature. ✨ Tertullian (2012). The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition), p.1161, Jazzybee Verlag284Politics
TertullianAll the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced...the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.317Reading
TertullianThe blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ✨ Speech at Christmas Celebration for Members of Inter-religious Organization by Reverend William Goh, www.catholic.sg. D… ▶307Death
TertullianWhat is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and to live to God? These are the pleasure… ▶3310Reading
TertullianFor it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume i… ▶274Philosophy
TertullianNow we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the sou… ▶285LifeTime
