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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.

St. Jerome

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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Battle Death Engagement Field Friendship Survive War
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Myself Praise
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROME

Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
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.
ST. JEROME

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
ST. JEROME

Himself Religious Soul Teaching
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROME

Deep Mistake Origin Water
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Blood Endurance Growth Rage Religious

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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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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