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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
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
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul
The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Blood Body Soul Spiritual
We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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Believe Himself Men Religious
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
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

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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