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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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Devil Men Sick
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
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
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
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
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
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Blood Body Soul Spiritual
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
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

Custom without truth is error grown old.

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