Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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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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Patience is God’s nature.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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