Best Quotes by Tertullian (Top 10)

  1. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
  2. Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
  3. If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.
  4. You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
  5. 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.
  6. The first reaction to truth is hatred.
  7. What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
  8. He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
  9. It is certain because it is impossible.
  10. Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money

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