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Haste is of the Devil.

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
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
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
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
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word

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