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Christians are made, not born.

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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
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
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
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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
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
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
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
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
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
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
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
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
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
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
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
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

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