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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
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
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
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
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
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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Forgiveness God Let Go Truth
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
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
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

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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