Quotes by Tertullian

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