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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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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
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Discipline Law Willing
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
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
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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Forgiveness God Let Go Truth
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
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
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
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline 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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