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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
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nature Poet Rumor
A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Beautiful Lust Religious
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
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
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
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
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
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
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
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
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
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
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
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
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work

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