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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
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
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
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Athlete Himself Inspirational Motivational
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
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
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
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
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
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
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman

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