Tertullian

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

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

Christians are made, not born.

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

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

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

It is certain because it is impossible.

He who flees will fight again.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

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

See how these Christians love one another.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

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.

It is certain because it is possible.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

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

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.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?