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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

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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
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
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
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
God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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Break Children Father Spirit World
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 whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Blood Body Soul Spiritual
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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