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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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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Moments Place Soul
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
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
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
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
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
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
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick

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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