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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 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 blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Blood Body Soul Spiritual
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 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
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
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
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
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
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
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
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
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
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
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
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety

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