Тертуллиан цитаты
Тертуллиан
Дата рождения: 155
Дата смерти: 230
Другие имена: Tertullianus
Квинт Септи́мий Фло́ренс Тертуллиа́н — один из наиболее выдающихся раннехристианских писателей, теологов и апологетов, автор 40 трактатов, из которых сохранился 31. В зарождавшемся богословии Тертуллиан впервые выразил концепцию Троицы. Положил начало латинской патристике и церковной латыни — языку средневековой западной мысли.
Цитаты Тертуллиан
„You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.“
— Tertullian
Context: 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.
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
„We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance.“
— Tertullian
Context: 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.
As quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 285
„Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues.“
— Tertullian
Context: 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.
De Testimonio Animae (The Testimony of the Soul), 6.3
„We are not Indian Brahmins or Gymnosophists, who dwell in woods and exile themselves from ordinary human life. We do not forget the debt of gratitude we owe to God, our Lord and Creator; we reject no creature of His hands, though certainly we exercise restraint upon ourselves, lest of any gift of His we make an immoderate or sinful use. So we sojourn with you in the world.“
— Tertullian
Chapter 42
„Reason, in fact, is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason — nothing which He has not willed should be handled and understood by reason. All, therefore, who are ignorant of God, must necessarily be ignorant also of a thing which is His, because no treasure-house at all is accessible to strangers. And thus, voyaging all the universal course of life without the rudder of reason, they know not how to shun the hurricane which is impending over the world.“
— Tertullian
De Paenitentia (On Repentance), 1.2-3
„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.“
— Tertullian
Chapter 38
„We are but of yesterday, and yet we have filled all the places that belong to you — cities, islands, forts, towns, exchanges; the military camps themselves, tribes, town councils, the palace, the senate, the market-place; we have left you nothing but your temples.“
— Tertullian
Tertullian's Plea For Allegiance, A.2
„It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.“
— Tertullian
Ad Scapulam, 2.2
„Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.“
— Tertullian
Adversus Valentinianos (Against the Valentinians), 1.4
