Frases de Tertuliano

„As duas cegueiras caminham juntas: aqueles que não vêem o que acontece, pensam que vêem o que não acontece.“

„O sangue dos mártires é a semente da igreja.“

Apologia

„Esperança é a paciência com a lâmpada acesa.“

Sanguis Martyrum est semen Ecclesia.
Tertuliano citado em Dictionarium sacrum seu religiosum, A dictionary of all religions, ancient and modern - página 60 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=wBMHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PT60, Dictionarium - 1704

„Eles elogiam o que conhecem e criticam o que ignoram.“

„A verdade não enrubesce.“
Nihil veritas erubescit

„É certo porque é impossível.“

Fonte: Revista Caras, Edição 665.

„A Verdade só deseja uma coisa dos governantes da Terra: não ser condenada sem ser conhecida.“

Fonte: Revista Caras, Edição 664

„Mas sois ímpios a tal ponto que procurais a divindade onde não está, que a procurais naqueles que não a possuem.“

Apologia

„Vemos nossos perseguidores cometendo os mesmos crimes de que nos acusam à luz do dia. Como também são culpados dos crimes de que somos acusados sem sentido, são merecedores de castigo e caem no ridículo.“

Apologia

„Um dia, tais coisas foram para nós, também, tema de ridículo. Nós somos de vossa geração e natureza: os homens se tornam, não nascem cristãos!“

Apologia

„Even when the ray is shot from the sun, it is still part of the parent mass; the sun will still be in the ray, because it is a ray of the sun—there is no division of substance, but merely an extension. Thus Christ is Spirit of Spirit, and God of God, as light of light is kindled.“

Apologia

Fonte: Apologeticus pro Christianis, Chapter 21

„Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues.“
Omnium gentium unus homo, uarium nomen est, una anima, uaria uox, unus spiritus, uarius sonus, propria cuique genti loquella, sed loquellae materia communis.

De Testimonio Animae (The Testimony of the Soul), 6.3
Contexto: Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language, yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere.

„It is to be believed because it is absurd.“
Prorsus credibile est, quia ineptum est. / Certum est, quia impossibile.

„We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance.“

Variant translations
It is by all means to be believed, because it is absurd.
It is is entirely credible, because it is inept.
It is certain because it is impossible.
De Carne Christi 5.4
Often paraphrased or misquoted as "Credo quia absurdum."
Also paraphrased as "It is so extraordinary that it must be true."
Two lines from De Carne Christi have often become conflated into the statement: "Credo quia impossibile" (I believe it because it is impossible), which can be perceived as a distortion of the actual arguments that Tertullian was making.

„You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.“

As quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 285
Contexto: We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance. There is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.

„If we rejoice with the world, there is reason to fear that with the world we shall grieve too. But when the world rejoices, let us grieve; and when the world afterward grieves, we shall rejoice.“

The Prescriptions Against the Heretics as translated by Stanley Lawrence Greenslade, in Early Latin Theology: Selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome (1956), p. 63
Contexto: Notorious, too, are the dealings of heretics with swarms of magicians and charlatans and astrologers and philosophers — all, of course, devotees of speculation. You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

„We renounce all your spectacles, as strongly as we renounce the matters originating them, which we know were conceived of superstition, when we give up the very things which are the basis of their representations. Among us nothing is ever said, or seen, or heard, which has anything in common with the madness of the circus, the immodesty of the theatre, the atrocities of the arena, the useless exercises of the wrestling-ground.“

Fonte: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/On_Idolatry/Of_the_Observance_of_Days_Connected_with_Idolatry Chapter 13, On Idolatry

Fonte: Apologeticus pro Christianis, Chapter 38

„Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.“
Veritas autem docendo persuadet non suadendo docet.

„The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is idolatry.“

Adversus Valentinianos (Against the Valentinians), 1.4