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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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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 first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
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
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
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
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
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
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
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work

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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