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Begin now what you will be hereafter.

St. Jerome

It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Himself Religious Soul Teaching
Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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Action Practice Talk Word Yourself
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Civilization Man Suffering
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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Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
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
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

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