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Where our joy is, there should our work be.

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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
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
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 to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
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
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
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
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
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.

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