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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Blood Body Soul Spiritual
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
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
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
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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Enough God Men Reveal
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

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