Tertullian Quotes

It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

It is to believed because it is absurd.

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

… like looking for an atheist in heaven

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.