Quotes from Tertullian

In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race.

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.

God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance

Where our joy is, there should our work be.

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

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

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

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

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.