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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

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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
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
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
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Moments Place Soul
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
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
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
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 man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men

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