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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
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
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
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
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 Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
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
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

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