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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
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
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Nature Soul Teaching
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick
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
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
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
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
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness

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