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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

St. Jerome

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner
If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Face Faith Forever Peace Time World Yourself
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Himself Religious Soul Teaching
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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Creation Force God Heart Human Love Mindset
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

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