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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Eyes Kindness Practice
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
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
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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Principles Religious
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nature Poet Rumor
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Nature Soul Teaching
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 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
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself

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