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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
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
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
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
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
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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Beautiful Lust Religious
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money

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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