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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
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
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
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
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
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline Faith Judgement Quality
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence

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