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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

St. Jerome

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
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
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
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
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Animal Eat Home Sin
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
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
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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Death Expense Himself Man Mom
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
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth 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
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Big Life Live Ourselves Short
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
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
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth

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