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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky
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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
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
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 fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
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
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
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
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
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion

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