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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

St. Jerome

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Humanity Move Power True
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
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
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
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
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
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
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
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
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
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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Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

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