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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
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
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
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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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
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
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nature Poet Rumor
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
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
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
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
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument

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