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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

St. Jerome

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
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
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
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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Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
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
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
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
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
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
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
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
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth

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