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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

St. Jerome

To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Action Beginning Inspirational Motivational Yourself
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Deep Mistake Origin Water

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

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