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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Beautiful Lust Religious
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
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
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
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
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
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
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
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Born Death Difference Life
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

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