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

St. Jerome

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
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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Creation Force God Heart Human Love Mindset
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
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
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
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture
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
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
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
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work

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

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