Quotes from Tertullian

See how these Christians love one another.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

I must dispel vanity with vanity.

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

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

Truth does not blush.

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

It is to be believed because it is absurd.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

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

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

One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man.

Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language, yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere.

Mother Church.

He who flees will fight again...

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

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

Now 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 soul does.

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.

It is certain because it is impossible