The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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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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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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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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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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