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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

St. Jerome

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
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
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
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
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
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Doubt Himself
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Animal Eat Home Sin
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
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
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
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

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