The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Tertullian
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
See how these Christians love one another.
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
Christians are made, not born.
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
Fear is the foundation of safety.
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
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.
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
He who flees will fight again.
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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.
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
It is certain because it is impossible.
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
It is certain because it is possible.
The nature of rumor is known to all.
Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.
