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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

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
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Humanity Move Power True
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
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
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
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
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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End Home Mistake Ourselves 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
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
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
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
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise

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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