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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

St. Jerome

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
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
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.
ST. JEROME

Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROME

Care Listening Oneself Talk
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
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
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
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

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