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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?

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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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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
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
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
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
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
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
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
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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Enough God Men Reveal
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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

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