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

St. Jerome

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
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
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
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
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
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
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
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
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
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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Action Practice Talk Word Yourself
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment

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