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.
ST. JEROME
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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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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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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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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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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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?
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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