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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

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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
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
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
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
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
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
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
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
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage 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
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money

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