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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
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
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
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Principles Religious
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Born Death Difference Life
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
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence

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