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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
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
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
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
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
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
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
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
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
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth

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