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Where our joy is, there should our work be.

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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
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
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
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
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
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
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
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
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

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