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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.

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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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Moments Place Soul
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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Break Children Father Spirit World
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
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
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
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
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner

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