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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.

St. Jerome

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
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Woman is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner Root Woman
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
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
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
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Himself Religious Soul Teaching
If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Face Faith Forever Peace Time World Yourself
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
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
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach

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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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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