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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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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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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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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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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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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