Quotes from Tertullian

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

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

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

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

In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race.

See how these Christians love one another.

Christians are made, not born.

Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.

Patience is God's nature.

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy

The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God

The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.

Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God

There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.