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His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.
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It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals. Accordingly, the apostle [St.] Matthew partook of seeds, nuts and vegetables, without meat.
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If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
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The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.
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If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.
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For the Divine Being cannot be declared as it exists: but as we who are fettered in the flesh were able to listen, so the prophets spake to us the Lord savingly accommodating Himself to the weakness of men.
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The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
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It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.
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Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.
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The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.
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But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
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Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.
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When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.
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The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.
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We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.
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Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'
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He changed sunset into sunrise.
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When you see your brother, you see God.
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And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'
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If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.
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But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.
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