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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Principles Religious
A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Beautiful Lust Religious
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
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
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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Believe Himself Men Religious
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
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
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman

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