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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

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
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
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
ST. JEROME

Animal Eat Home Sin
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
ST. JEROME

Devil Man Scripture Worst
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.
ST. JEROME

Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROME

Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
ST. JEROME

Happiness Learning Love Tongue
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROME

Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME

Friendship Reality
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
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
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
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
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
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
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk

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