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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

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He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
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
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
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
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
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
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 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
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
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
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men

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