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" Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world? "
Suffering
Son
Compassion
" By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth. "
Truth
Arrive
Question
" I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war. "
War
Rather
Other
" It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. "
Investigating
Come
Recognize
" Logic has made me hated in the world. "
Made
Me
World
" Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found. "
God
Suffering
Children
" The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. "
Question
Arrive
Key
" The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts. "
Abandon
Men
Miserable
" The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love. "
Nature
Son
Teach
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