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

St. Jerome

Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick 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
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
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
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
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
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
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
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.
ST. JEROME

Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek

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