They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROMEMartyrdom 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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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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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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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