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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

St. Jerome

We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROME

Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
ST. JEROME

Ignorance Worst Yourself
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
ST. JEROME

Creation Force God Heart Human Love Mindset
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
ST. JEROME

Greatness Poison
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.
ST. JEROME

Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROME

Care Listening Oneself Talk
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROME

Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
ST. JEROME

Heaven Learning Seek Truth
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

Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
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
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.
ST. JEROME

Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
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.
ST. JEROME

Blood Endurance Growth Rage Religious

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