You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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The nature of rumor is known to all.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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