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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

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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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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
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
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
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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Forgiveness God Let Go Truth
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
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
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
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

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