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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
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
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
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
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
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
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
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul

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