Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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