Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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