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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
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
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
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
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
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
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
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
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
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
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
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
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
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
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
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 Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious

Those who fled will fight another time.

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