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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Believe Death God Impossible Mad
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
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
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
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
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
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
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
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
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
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious

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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