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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
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
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
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
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
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
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
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 fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
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
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
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

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