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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Moments Place Soul
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious 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
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
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
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth

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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