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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

St. Jerome

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Humanity Move Power True
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Big Life Live Ourselves Short
They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
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
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
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
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
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
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

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

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