Quotes by Tertullian

“Why lean upon a blind guide, if you have eyes of your own? Why be clothed by one who is naked, if you have put on Christ? Why use the shield of another, when the apostle gives you armour of your ow...”

“De fuga in persecutione (On running away from persecution), here translated by Sydney Thelwall. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 4. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe...”

“Qui fugiebat, rursus sibi proeliabitur.”

“Ad Scapulam (To Scapula)”

“Nec alii obest aut prodest alterius religio.”

“Nec religionis est cogere religionem”

“Adversus Marcionem (Against Marcion), here translated by Holmes, ibid”

“The dead bodies of their parents they cut up with their sheep, and devour at their feasts. They who have not died so as to become food for others, are thought to have died an accursed death. Their ...”

“But the Christian verity has distinctly declared this principle, God is not, if He is not one; because we more properly believe that that has no existence which is not as it ought to be.”

“But this argument you will try to shake with an objection from the name of God, by alleging that that name is a vague one, and applied to other beings also; as it is written, God standeth in the co...”

“In the first place, how arrogantly do the Marcionites build up their stupid system, bringing forward a new god, as if we were ashamed of the old one! So schoolboys are proud of their new shoes, but...”

“What indeed tended so greatly to the knowledge of himself, as his appearing in the humiliation of the flesh,—a degradation all the lower indeed if the flesh were only illusory? For it was all the m...”

“Finally, take a circuit round your own self; survey man within and without. Even this handiwork of our God will be pleasing to you, inasmuch as your own lord, that better god, loved it so well, and...”

“Then, inasmuch as He too has fabricated a world out of some underlying material which is unbegotten, and unmade, and contemporaneous with God, just as Marcion holds of the Creator, you reduce this ...”

“Digna enim deo probabunt deum. Nos definimus deum primo natura cognoscendum, deinde doctrina recognoscendum, natura ex operibus, doctrina ex praedicationibus.”

“Infirma commendatio est quae de alterius destructione fulcitur.”

“Itaque et ego vanitatem vanitate depellam.”

“De patientia (On patience), here translated by Thelwall, ibid”

“Cum ergo spiritus Dei descendit, indiuidua patientia comitatur eum.”