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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.

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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
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
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
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death 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
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
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
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
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
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women

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