Tertullian Quotes

Man thinks, God directs.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.

No, Sir, when God Almighty lays His hand upon a man, I take mine off.

When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.

If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men

Money is a bad god. People are a bad god. They don't have the power to do what God can do.

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven!

Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.

The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.

I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.

For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; and the swords might be turned into ploughshares, the spears into pruning-hooks, and as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more.

Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.

I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.

The Holy Spirit's motivation is always the same thing -to charge the word with heaven's own electric power.

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!