There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
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
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible

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