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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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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Born Death Difference Life
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
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
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
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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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
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
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
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
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place

How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!

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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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