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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

St. Jerome

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
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
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
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
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Myself Praise
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Humanity Move Power True
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROME

Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
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
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Action Beginning Inspirational Motivational Yourself
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

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