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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
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
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
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 blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
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
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
The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Blood Body Soul Spiritual
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature 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
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
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
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
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
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
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
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
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence

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