Tertullian Quotes

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing. - Tertullian

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

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? - Tertullian

We live among you, eat the same food, wear the same clothes . . . We sojourn with you in the world, renouncing neither forum nor market, nor bath, nor booth, nor workshop, nor inn . . . We till the ground with you, we join with you in business ventures. - Tertullian

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not. - Tertullian

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy. - Tertullian

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?' - Tertullian

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

The nature of rumor is known to all. - Tertullian

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