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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
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
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Believe Death God Impossible Mad
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Born Death Difference Life
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
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
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
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
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself

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