Quote

The blood of the Christians is seed

Tertullian

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tertullian
Author
Philosopher
Theologian
Writer
Carthage
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
Christians
Seeds
Blood
Christian
Seed

More quotes by Tertullian

Image
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
Tertullian
Image
The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
Tertullian
Image
The blood of Christians is seed.
Tertullian
Image
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
Tertullian
Image
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
Tertullian
Image
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God
Tertullian
Image
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
Tertullian
Image
Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.
Tertullian
Image
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Tertullian
Image
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
Tertullian
Image
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
Tertullian
Image
Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work.... How unworthy of the Christian name it is to wear a fictitious face - you on whom simplicity in every form is enjoined! You, to whom lying with the tongue is not lawful, are lying in appearance.
Tertullian
Image
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
Tertullian
Image
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.
Tertullian
Image
I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.
Tertullian
Image
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
Tertullian
Image
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.
Tertullian
Image
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money
Tertullian
Image
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
Tertullian
Image
Those who fled will fight another time.
Tertullian