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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

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
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Big Life Live Ourselves Short
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
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
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
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
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
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
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
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
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Happiness Learning Love Tongue

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