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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

St. Jerome

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
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
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
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
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 friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
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
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
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
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
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Deep Mistake Origin Water
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves

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