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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
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
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Eyes Kindness Practice
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
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
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
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 state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible

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