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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.

St. Jerome

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME

Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Happiness Learning Love Tongue
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
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
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Athlete Himself Inspirational Motivational
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
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
Woman is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner Root Woman
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
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture

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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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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