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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.

St. Jerome

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Hard Impression Mindset White
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
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
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
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
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
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
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture
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
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner 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
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night

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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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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