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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

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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
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Eyes Kindness Practice
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
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

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

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