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Where our work is, there let our joy be.

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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
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
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
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
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
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
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
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
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
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

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

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