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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 is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
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
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
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
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Beautiful Lust Religious
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul
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
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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Believe Himself Men Religious
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
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
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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
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
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
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
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
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
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety

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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