Quotes about Tertullian

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The ISIS barbarians were actually quite right in entitling their video A Message Written in Blood. Up and down the centuries, tyrants and their lackeys have thought that they could wipe out the followers of Jesus through acts of violence. But as Tertullian observed long ago, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. And they were furthermore right in sending their message to the Nation of the Cross. But they should know that the cross taunts them.

Robert Barron (bishop)

Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity or harmony of disposition only. Thus Tertullian observes, that the expression is unum, one thing, not one person; and he explains it to mean unity, likeness, conjunction, and of the love that the Father bore to the Son. Origen says, "let him consider that text, 'all that believed were of one heart and of one soul,' and then he will understand this, 'I and my Father are one.'"

Joseph Priestley

Every word [of Tertullian] almost was a sentence; every sentence a victory.

St Vincent of Lerins