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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.

St. Jerome

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
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
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
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
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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Care Listening Oneself Talk
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Hard Impression Mindset White
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
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
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
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
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
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
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

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