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Christians are made, not born.

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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
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life 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
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
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Nature Soul Teaching
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed

Christians are made, not born.

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