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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
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
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
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
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
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
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
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Born Death Difference Life
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
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
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

Patience is God’s nature.

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