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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.

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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
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
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Beautiful Lust Religious
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
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 blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
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
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
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame

The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.

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