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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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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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Nature Soul Teaching
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
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
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nature Poet Rumor
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
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
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
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
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
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
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
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
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner

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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