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 blood seeds
The blood of Christians is seed.
christian blood grows
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
christian blood seeds
The blood of the Christians is seed
blood soul body
The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God
blood church-today christianity
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
men blood abortion
In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder birth is merely a speedier man-killing; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.
lying men causes
The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being. And now this same Word has appeared as man. He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things
way earning usual
The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
prayer conquer one-thing
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God
long littles wander
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
lust soul maidens
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.
sarcastic dog apostles
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
impossible certain certainty
It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile
father son names
[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.