Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

- Tertullian

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

- Tertullian

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

- Tertullian

He who flees will fight again.

- Tertullian

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

- Tertullian

The nature of rumor is known to all.

- Tertullian

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

- Tertullian

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

- Tertullian

Christians are made, not born.

- Tertullian

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

- Tertullian

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

- Tertullian

Fear is the foundation of safety.

- Tertullian

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

- Tertullian

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

- Tertullian

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

- Tertullian

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

- Tertullian

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

- Tertullian

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

- Tertullian

It is certain because it is possible.

- Tertullian

It is certain because it is impossible.

- Tertullian