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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
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
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
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
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
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
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
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
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
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nature Poet Rumor
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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