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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

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
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
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.
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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Deep Mistake Origin Water
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
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
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
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.
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Happiness Learning Love Tongue
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
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

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