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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Believe Death God Impossible Mad
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
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
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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline Faith Judgement Quality
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
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
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
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
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
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 holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

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