The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.
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Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.
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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
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It is rare indeed that there is not ample occasion for grumbling.
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