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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

St. Jerome

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
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
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
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
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
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
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
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
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
It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Devil Man Scripture Worst
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship

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