Quotes by Tertullian

Tertullian

[T]he Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [are] three … not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in form; not in power, but in aspect; yet of one substance, and of one condition, and of one power, inasmuch as He is one God, from whom these degrees and forms and aspects are reckoned, under the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

Father

Names

Son

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

Beautiful

Giving

Lust

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

Born

Christian

Men

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God’s plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

Beauty

Carpe Diem

Eye

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.

Ends

Marriage

Marrying

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

Argument

Headache

Scripture

Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.

Asking

Doe

Thinking

But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.

Christian

Passion

Sex

Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

Dies

Pleasure

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Customs

Errors

Truth Is

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Abortion

Absurd

Argument

Art

Asking

Beautiful

Beauty

Belief

Believe

Benefits

Birth

Blood

Born

Carpe Diem

Causes

Certain

Certitude

Christian

Christian Women

Christianity

Church Today

Customs

Cutting

Dies

Differences

Discipline

Diversity

Divorce

Doctrine

Doe

Dog

Done

Earning

Earth

Ends

Enemy

Errors

Events

Evil

Expression

Eye

Facts

Fall

Father

Feeding

Feelings

Feet

Fighting

Firsts

Flags

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Quotes by Tertullian

Tertullian

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God’s plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.

But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.

Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

Custom without truth is error grown old.

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