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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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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
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
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
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
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
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
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
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
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
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

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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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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