Top 127 Quotes & Sayings by Tertullian - Page 3

The blood of Christians is seed.

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

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

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?

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

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.

How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!