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Top 80 Tertullian Quotes (2025 Update)

Tertullian Quote: “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”
Tertullian Quote: “Out of the frying pan, into the fire.”
Tertullian Quote: “See how these Christians love one another.”
Tertullian Quote: “The first reaction to truth is hatred.”
Tertullian Quote: “You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.”
Tertullian Quote: “It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.”
Tertullian Quote: “Hope is patience with the lamp lit.”
Tertullian Quote: “The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.”
Tertullian Quote: “Woman is a temple built over a sewer.”
Tertullian Quote: “The entire fruit is already present in the seed.”
Tertullian Quote: “Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.”
Tertullian Quote: “You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.”
Tertullian Quote: “Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.”
Tertullian Quote: “Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.”
Tertullian Quote: “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.”
Tertullian Quote: “Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.”
Tertullian Quote: “Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.”
Tertullian Quote: “He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.”
Tertullian Quote: “The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.”
Tertullian Quote: “Patience is God’s nature.”
Tertullian Quote: “Where our work is, there let our joy be.”
Tertullian Quote: “A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.”
Tertullian Quote: “Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.”
Tertullian Quote: “What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and to live to God? These are the pleasures – these are the spectacles – that befit Christian men.”
Tertullian Quote: “I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.”
Tertullian Quote: “Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.”
Tertullian Quote: “If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.”
Tertullian Quote: “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.”
Tertullian Quote: “The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.”
Tertullian Quote: “It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile.”
Tertullian Quote: “The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.”
Tertullian Quote: “Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.”
Tertullian Quote: “Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.”
Tertullian Quote: “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 Quote: “Fear is the foundation of safety.”
Tertullian Quote: “It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.”
Tertullian Quote: “Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.”
Tertullian Quote: “Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.”
Tertullian Quote: “Custom without truth is error grown old.”
Tertullian Quote: “The usual complaint is, ‘I have no other way of earning a living.’ The harsh reply can be, ‘Do you have to live?’”
Tertullian Quote: “For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artistic skill of God is displeasing!”
Tertullian Quote: “Christians are made, not born.”
Tertullian Quote: “It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man’s religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.”
Tertullian Quote: “A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.”
Tertullian Quote: “We live in the world with you. We do not forsake forum or bath or workshop, or inn, or market, or any other place of commerce. We sail with you, fight with you, farm with you.”
Tertullian Quote: “Discipline is an index to doctrine.”
Tertullian Quote: “Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.”
Tertullian Quote: “Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.”
Tertullian Quote: “It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.”
Tertullian Quote: “I believe because it is absurd.”
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