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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
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
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
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
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
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
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
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
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Moments Place Soul
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
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
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
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
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
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious

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