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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

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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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Discipline Faith Judgement Quality
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
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
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
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
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
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
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life 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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