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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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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Born Death Difference Life
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
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
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
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Eyes Kindness Practice
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
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
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
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
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World

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