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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

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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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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
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
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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Break Children Father Spirit World
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
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
All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Principles 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
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
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
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
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
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Believe Death God Impossible Mad
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
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
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
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
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible

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