The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
- St. Jerome
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love … Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole... Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
When we pray we speak to God;
but when we read, God speaks to us.
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or,... The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep... It is our part to seek,
His to grant what we ask;
ours to make a beginning,
His to bring it... Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a... Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they... It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they...
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