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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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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
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
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
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
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women

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