Zitat des Tages von Tertullian:
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
Christians are made, not born.
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
It is certain because it is impossible.
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
It is certain because it is possible.
See how these Christians love one another.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.
He who flees will fight again.
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
Fear is the foundation of safety.
The nature of rumor is known to all.
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.