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Tertullian [160-225] Roman

Rank: 101
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Tertullian, full name Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, c. 155 – c. 240 AD, was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa.

Faith, Fear, Freedom, God, Hope, Life, Patience, Truth

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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.		101
The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'		102
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.	Hope, Patience	103
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.	Faith	104
See how these Christians love one another.		105
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.	Fear	106
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.		107
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.		108
The first reaction to truth is hatred.	Truth	109
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.	God	110
It is certain because it is impossible.		111
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.		112
It is certain because it is possible.		113
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.		114
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.	Life	115
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.	Freedom	116
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.		117
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.		118
Fear is the foundation of safety.		119
Christians are made, not born.		120
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.		121
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.		122
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.		123
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?		124
The nature of rumor is known to all.		125
He who flees will fight again.		126
Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.		201
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.		202

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