Tertullian famous quotes

04-14-2025

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
-- Tertullian

#Letting Go #Faces #Done
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
-- Tertullian

#Joy
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
-- Tertullian

#Patience #Hope #Lamps
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

#Pain #Lying #Feelings
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
-- Tertullian

#Hate #Ignorance #Men
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
-- Tertullian

#Christian #Men #Born
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
-- Tertullian

#Blood #Church #Christianity
The entire fruit is already present in the seed.
-- Tertullian

#Fruit
We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.
-- Tertullian

#Eye #Cutting #Thinking
There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events.
-- Tertullian

#Christian #Evil #Events
Christians are made, not born.
-- Tertullian

#Christian #Born #Made
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
-- Tertullian

#Temples
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
-- Tertullian

#Truth #Hatred #Firsts
The Law found more than it lost when Christ said, â€˜Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heavenâ€™ (Matthew 5:44-45). This most important commandment summarizes in a word the universal discipline of patience, since it does not allow us to do evil even to people who deserve it.
-- Tertullian

#Father #Love You #Son
I believe because it is absurd.
-- Tertullian

#Believe #I Believe #Absurd
Fear is the foundation of safety.
-- Tertullian

#Safety #Foundation #Workplace Safety
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
-- Tertullian

#Scripture #Argument #Headache
Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.
-- Tertullian

#Soul #Flesh #Birth
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
-- Tertullian

#Inspirational #Teaching #Doe
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
-- Tertullian

#Judging #Discipline #Quality
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
-- Tertullian

#Life #Selfishness #Benefits
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
-- Tertullian

#Men #Abortion #Fruit
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
-- Tertullian
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
-- Tertullian

#Mean #Son #Rose
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
-- Tertullian

#Patience #Men #He Man

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