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Patience is God’s nature.

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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
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
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
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
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
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
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
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
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
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
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
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
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present

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