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Fear is the foundation of safety.

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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
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
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
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
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
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
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
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
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner

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