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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

St. Jerome

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
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
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
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
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Devil Man Scripture Worst
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
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
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
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Civilization Man Suffering
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order

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