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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 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
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
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
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
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
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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Believe Himself Men Religious
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time

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