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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.

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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
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
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
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
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
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
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
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
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

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