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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.

St. Jerome

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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Death Expense Himself Man Mom
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
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
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Face Faith Forever Peace Time World Yourself
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Devil Man Scripture Worst
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
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
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
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
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

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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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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