Tertullian,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, On Patience…
(1885)
“ But us, according to the diversity by which we are distinguished from them, it becomes to lay down not our soul for money, but money for our soul, whether spontaneously in bestowing or patiently in losing. ”
Tertullian,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, On Patience…
(1885)
“ In truth, I know not whether he who has not made up his mind to endure with constancy the loss of somewhat of his, either by theft, or else by force, or else even by carelessness, would himself readily or heartily lay hand on his own property in the cause of almsgiving: for who that endures not at all to be cut by another, himself draws the sword on his own body? Patience in losses is an exercise in bestowing and communicating. ”
Tertullian,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, On Patience…
(1885)
“ Let us not interpret that covetousness as consisting merely in the concupiscence of what is another’s: for even what seems ours is another’s; for nothing is ours, since all things are God’s, whose are we also ourselves. ”
