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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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See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
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
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
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
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
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
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
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
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
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
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
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
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
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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Forgiveness God Let Go Truth
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
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

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