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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

St. Jerome

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
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Doubt Himself
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
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
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
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
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
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
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
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
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin

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