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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
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
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
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
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
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
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death 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 fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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