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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

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
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
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
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
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
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
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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Alive Color Emotion Expression Feeling Music Myself Voice
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
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
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
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
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
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
Woman is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner Root Woman
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk

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