Tertullian
Tertullian
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. He is the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He also was a notable early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy, including contemporary Christian Gnosticism. Tertullian has been called "the father of Latin Christianity" and "the founder of Western theology."...
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christian men born
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
hate ignorance men
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
wealth
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money
patience
Patience is God's nature.
temples christian-women sewers
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
inspirational teaching doe
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
philosophy heresy
Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy
christian love-one-another
See how these Christians love one another.
christian evil events
There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events.
truth hatred enemy
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
fruit seeds
The entire fruit is already present in the seed.
christian jesus drinking
It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God, your liver is your temple, your paunch is your altar, the cook is your priest, and the fat steam is your Holy Spirit; the seasonings and the sauces are your chrisms, and your belchings are your prophesizing...[such] a grossly- feeding Christian is akin to lions and wolves rather than God. Our Lord Jesus called Himself Truth and not habit.
life selfishness benefits
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
kindness eye practice
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.