No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
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Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful tone is silenced.
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Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
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Titus 1:11:
They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach – and that for the sake of dishonest gain.
(NIV)
Their mouths must be stopped, for they are mentally distressing and subverting whole families by teaching what they ought not to teach, for the purpose of getting base advantage and disreputable gain.
(AMP)
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
(KJV)
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Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
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The voice of intelligence ... is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
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Romans 3:19:
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
(NIV)
Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that [the murmurs and excuses of] every mouth may be hushed and all the world may be held accountable to God.
(AMP)
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
(KJV)
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Matthew 22:34:
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.
(NIV)
Now when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced (muzzled) the Sadducees, they gathered together.
(AMP)
But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
(KJV)
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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