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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.

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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
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
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
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
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
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
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
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
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work

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