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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

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Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
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
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 ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
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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Break Children Father Spirit World
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
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
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
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

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