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

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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
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
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
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
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
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
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
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
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
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
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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