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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letting-go faces done
You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
patience hope lamps
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
scripture argument headache
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
nature men religion
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.
discipline judging quality
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
soul doe moments
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
errors truth-is customs
Custom without truth is error grown old.
soul flesh birth
Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.
wealth
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money
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.
kings judging soldier
I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.
jerusalem athens
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
military fighting
He who flees will fight again.