Quotes from Tertullian

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

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.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

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.

Those who fled will fight another time.

It is certain because it is impossible.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

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

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

The nature of rumor is known to all.

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

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

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

For 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 it.

He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

O witness of the soul naturally Christian.

We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.