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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

St. Jerome

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
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
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
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
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
Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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Action Practice Talk Word Yourself
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
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
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
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
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk

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