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