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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 a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
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
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People 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
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
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 whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
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
God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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Break Children Father Spirit World
If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed

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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