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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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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
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
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
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
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Eyes Kindness Practice
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
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
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth

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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