Tertullian
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.Collection: Patience
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.Collection: God
Fear is the foundation of safety.Collection: Fear
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.Collection: Faith
The first reaction to truth is hatred.Collection: Truth
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.Collection: Life
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.Collection: Nature
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.Collection: Marriage
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.Collection: Freedom
You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.Collection: Forgiveness
We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance. There is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.Collection: Father
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.Collection: Blood
Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.Collection: Prayer
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.Collection: Hate
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by moneyCollection: Money
The 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 overcome by courage of the Spirit....A christian is fearless.Collection: Christian
In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.Collection: Men
God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragranceCollection: Father
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.Collection: Christian
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.Collection: Mean
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.Collection: Scripture
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.Collection: Kindness
In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God's sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil's gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die... Woman, you are the gate to hell.Collection: Sex
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.Collection: Life
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.Collection: Differences
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling painCollection: Pain
Custom without truth is error grown old.Collection: Errors
The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'Collection: Usual
I believe because it is absurd.Collection: Believe
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.Collection: Fruit
The Law found more than it lost when Christ said, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven’ (Matthew 5:44-45). This most important commandment summarizes in a word the universal discipline of patience, since it does not allow us to do evil even to people who deserve it.Collection: Father
If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.Collection: Christian
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'Collection: Nature
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.Collection: Kings
Let the emperor make war on heaven; let him lead heaven captive in his triumph; let him put guards on heaven; let him impose taxes on heaven! He cannot. . . . He gets his sceptre where he first got his humanity; his power where he got the breath of life.Collection: War
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?Collection: Pleasure
Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.Collection: Thinking
Keep 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 understand what is meant by it. Observe now that I say the Father is other [distinct], the Son is other, and the Spirit is other. This statement is wrongly understood by every uneducated or perversely disposed individual, as if it meant diversity and implied by that diversity a separation of Father, Son, and Holy SpiritCollection: Father
He 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 not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.Collection: Christian
Offerings 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, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships [financial overseers]and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.Collection: Religious
I 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 His Word.Collection: Bible
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.Collection: Eye
But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.Collection: Christian
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.Collection: Soul
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.Collection: Sarcastic
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!Collection: Men
The blood of Christians is seed.Collection: Christian
For 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 lawful to be slain than to slay?Collection: War
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.Collection: Marriage
There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.Collection: God