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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
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
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
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
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
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
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
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
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
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
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
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
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
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 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

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