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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.

St. Jerome

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Blood Endurance Growth Rage Religious
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Devil Man Scripture Worst
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
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
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
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
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
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
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
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise

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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