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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
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
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
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
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
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
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
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
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
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder

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