146 Quotes by Tertullian

We live in the world with you. We do not forsake forum or bath or workshop, or inn, or market, or any other place of commerce. We sail with you, fight with you, farm with you.

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

You say we worship the sun; so do you.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

In one sense there will be something difficult even for God — namely, that which He has not done — not because He could not, but because He would not, do it. For with God, to be willing is to be able, and to be unwilling is to be unable; all that He has willed, however, He has both been able to accomplish, and has displayed His ability.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

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

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

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.