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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

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Big Life Live Ourselves Short
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
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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Battle Death Engagement Field Friendship Survive War
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
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
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Blood Endurance Growth Rage Religious
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
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 tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth

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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