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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
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
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
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
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
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
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
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
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
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
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence

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