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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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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
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
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
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 flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Blood Body Soul Spiritual
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
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
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
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner

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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