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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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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
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline Faith Judgement Quality
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
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
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
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
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
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
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
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
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
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
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
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
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Nature Soul Teaching

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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