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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
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
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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Believe Himself Men Religious
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
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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Growth Old Truth
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

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