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Fear is the foundation of safety.

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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
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
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
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
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
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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Forgiveness God Let Go Truth
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
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
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

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