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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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Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Believe Death God Impossible Mad
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
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
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
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
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
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

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