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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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Enough God Men Reveal
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
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
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
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
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
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
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
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
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

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