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

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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline Faith Judgement Quality
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
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
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
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
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
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
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
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
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money

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

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