Christians are made, not born.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Christians are made, not born.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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 judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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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