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Patience is God’s nature.

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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
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
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
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 blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
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
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
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
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
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner

Patience is God’s nature.

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