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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
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
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
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 certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
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
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
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
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
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
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 to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
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

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