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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.

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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
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
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old 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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad 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
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
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
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
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
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame

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