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Patience is God’s nature.

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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
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul
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 cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
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
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
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
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
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
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
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women

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