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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

St. Jerome

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
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
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
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
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
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
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

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