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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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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
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
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
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
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
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
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
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious

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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