You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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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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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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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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