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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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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 state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Discipline Law Willing
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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
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
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Believe Death God Impossible Mad
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
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
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
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
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
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
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
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
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner

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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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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