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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

St. Jerome

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
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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Death Expense Himself Man Mom
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
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
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
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
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
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
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
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

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

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