To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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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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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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