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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

St. Jerome

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
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
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
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
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
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
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
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Hard Impression Mindset White
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
Woman is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner Root Woman
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Happiness Learning Love Tongue
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

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