Tertullian Quotes
"The first reaction to truth is hatred."
- Tertullian
(Related: Truth, First, Hatred)
"The nature of rumor is known to all."
- Tertullian
(Related: Nature, Rumor)
"The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed."
- Tertullian
(Related: Blood)
"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."
- Tertullian
(Related: Feeling, Lies, Pain, Pleasure, Will)
"Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it."
- Tertullian
"It is certain because it is impossible."
- Tertullian
"The entire fruit is already present in the seed."
- Tertullian
(Related: Present)
"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church."
- Tertullian
(Related: Church, Blood, Martyrs)
"The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'"
- Tertullian
(Related: Complaint, Living)
"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder."
- Tertullian
(Related: Murder, Prevention)
"You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing."
- Tertullian
(Related: Freedom, Nothing)
"Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money."
- Tertullian
(Related: Money, God, Nothing)
"Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame."
- Tertullian
(Related: Nature, Fear, Evil, Shame)
"See how these Christians love one another."
- Tertullian
(Related: Love)
"Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy."
- Tertullian
(Related: Truth, Enemy, Hatred)
"Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not."
- Tertullian
(Related: Blindness)
"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"
- Tertullian
(Related: Athens)
"You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine."
- Tertullian
(Related: Faith, Quality, Discipline, Doctrine)
"Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy."
- Tertullian
(Related: Philosophy)
"Hope is patience with the lamp lit."
- Tertullian
(Related: Hope, Patience)
"He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies."
- Tertullian
(Related: World)
"He who flees will fight again."
- Tertullian
(Related: Fight, Will)
"Fear is the foundation of safety."
- Tertullian
(Related: Fear, Safety)
"Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage."
- Tertullian
(Related: Marriage, Divorce, Religious, Vow)
"Christians are made, not born."
- Tertullian
"Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache."
- Tertullian
(Related: Arguments, Nothing, Scripture)
"It is certain because it is possible."
- Tertullian