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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.

St. Jerome

They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
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
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
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
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
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin

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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