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It is certain because it is impossible.

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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Eyes Kindness Practice
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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Break Children Father Spirit World
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Discipline Law Willing
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline Faith Judgement Quality
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nature Poet Rumor
For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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Enough God Men Reveal
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious

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