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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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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Born Death Difference Life
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
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
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
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
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
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
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 blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline Faith Judgement Quality
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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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women

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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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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