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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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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Believe Death God Impossible Mad
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
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
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
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
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
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Born Death Difference Life
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present

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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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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