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

St. Jerome

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
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
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
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
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
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
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
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
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
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
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison

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

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