THE FOOLISHNESS OF THE INCARNATION & THE CROSS

'What is more demeaning to God, what is more shameful - getting born or dying? To carry flesh or to carry a cross? To be circumcised or be hanged? To be fed at the breast or to be buried?...But you will not be wise unless, by believing God's "foolish things," you have become foolish in this age.'

Tertullian in Kelly M Kapic, You're Only Human, p.46.

CHURCH

'It is our care of the helpless, our practice of loving kindness that brands us in the eyes of many of our opponents. "Only look," they say, "look how they love one another."'

Tertullian in Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions & Eternity, p.226.