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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
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
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
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
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
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
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
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
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
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
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem

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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