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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

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
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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Creation Force God Heart Human Love Mindset
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
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
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
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
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
Woman is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner Root Woman
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
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
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice

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