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Love knows nothing of order.

St. Jerome

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
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
ST. JEROME

Death Expense Himself Man Mom
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Animal Eat Home Sin
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
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
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
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
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Doubt Himself

Love knows nothing of order.

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