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The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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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
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
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
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
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
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
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
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Moments Place Soul
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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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